Brad Rogers

“Our experiences may look like trauma or something horrendous. But no matter what we go through, there is knowledge to be gained.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“A linguistic concept called the theory of performativity says that language does not simply describe or reflect who we are, it creates who we are.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“It’s hard to say where any of this ends or how it ever began, because what you eventually learn is that there is no such thing as linear. There is only this wild, fucked-up flamethrower of a collective dream in which we were all born and traveled and died.”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio