Millennial Writers Quotes

“Millennials: We lost the genetic lottery. We graduated high school into terrorist attacks and wars. We graduated college into a recession and mounds of debt. We will never acquire the financial cushion, employment stability, and material possessions of our parents. We are often more educated, experienced, informed, and digitally fluent than prior generations, yet are constantly haunted by the trauma of coming of age during the detonation of the societal structure we were born into. But perhaps we are overlooking the silver lining. We will have less money to buy the material possessions that entrap us. We will have more compassion and empathy because our struggles have taught us that even the most privileged can fall from grace. We will have the courage to pursue our dreams because we have absolutely nothing to lose. We will experience the world through backpacking, couch surfing, and carrying on interesting conversations with adventurers in hostels because our bank accounts can't supply the Americanized resorts. Our hardships will obligate us to develop spiritual and intellectual substance. Maybe having roommates and buying our clothes at thrift stores isn't so horrible as long as we are making a point to pursue genuine happiness.”
― Maggie Young

“In my early twenties, I treated sex like a bartering system, trading giving for receiving, feeling victorious when I’d received more pleasure, and swindled when I’d given more. As I matured, sex became a bond that was only gratifying when both parties were equally satisfied.”
― Maggie Young

“The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.”
― Maggie Young

“I don't want her to see how I had hoped to pity her -- how I had thought, maybe, I was meant to.”
― Constance Renfrow, "The Edge of Happiness" Songs of my Selfie

“It only takes a tenth grade course on evolution to know that the prostate g-spot’s existence alone is proof that ass play has been done for a very, very long time.”
― Maggie Young

“But that’s what it’s like being a Millennial in a Boomer’s world. There’s always someone else pulling the strings.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“In general, Boomers, as a generation, have sowed their crop and they must reap what they’ve planted. They are and will be admired, feared and reviled in mixed measure. They made everything about themselves, and subjugated both their parents before them, and everyone who followed them, in equal measure.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir