Emily

“The very term “cancel culture” is hopelessly non-useful, with its suggestion that the loss of status for the accused is somehow on a par with the suffering endured by the victim.”
― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

“When you’re having a moral feeling, self-congratulation is never far behind. You are setting your emotion in a bed of ethical language, and you are admiring yourself doing it. We are governed by emotion, emotion around which we arrange language. The transmission of our virtue feels extremely important, and strangely exciting.”
― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

“And yet the deprivation of her intimacy had made a small dent in his heart, and in his breathing, and in the hard candy of his eyes. The thought of her was everywhere but nowhere—an omniscient narrator.”
― Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

“Mantis shrimps throw punches like humans throw opinions: frequently, aggressively, and without provocation.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us