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“George looked genuinely devastated, and for my own part I felt like I had kicked a puppy. I told myself it was an educational experience, but what can a puppy ever learn from being kicked?”
― Sometimes People Die
― Sometimes People Die
“When a human invites you somewhere, the polite thing to do is to accept. Unless they are inviting you for the sake of politeness itself. On those occasions, the polite thing to do is to decline! Human interaction can be best understood as a never-ending arms race of politeness.”
― Set My Heart to Five
― Set My Heart to Five
“Perhaps Elon Musk had even been on to something when he ‘accidentally’ incinerated the moon!”
― Set My Heart to Five
― Set My Heart to Five
“separate”
― Sometimes People Die
― Sometimes People Die
“our collective war against disease is one of attrition, and suicide is an occupational hazard for us all. How could it not be, when we take an unusually conscientious and empathic group of people, blur their boundaries between life and death daily, then work them to exhaustion in a culture so binary it can admit only complete success or abject failure? Sometimes, the strangest part to me is simply that more of us don’t meet this same sad end.”
― Sometimes People Die
― Sometimes People Die
