Peter

“That thing out there would attack us”
― Eden Robinson, Return of the Trickster

“In the wake of any slow-developing disaster that hits the news—a hurricane, or a flood, or a war—there’s this infuriating thing that Zoey always heard people say about the victims: “Why didn’t those people just get out of there when they knew what was coming? Why are they so stubborn?” Infuriating, of course, because of the blithe presumption that everyone actually has somewhere to go. If you’re someone to whom even a cheap hotel is an unthinkable extravagance, and all of your friends already have extended family sleeping on their living room floor, all you can do is hunker down and hope the storm takes a last-second turn. You don’t have a choice. That’s what it’s like being poor—choices are something you sit around and dream about having, some day after you strike it rich.”
― Jason Pargin, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“He said, “At your age, life is full of possibilities. But as the years pass, those possibilities vanish, one by one, like doors closing in a hallway. You feel time slip by, and your energy slip away. One day, you realize you’re too old to be a famous musician, or change careers, or have more children. And each of those closed doors represents a regret. As you get older, well, those regrets come to define you.”
― Jason Pargin, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“The truth was, people were garbage at any age—but school was an institution, no different in principle than prisons, the military, mental hospitals, or other places where society warehoused entire classes of people.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Lessons in Magic and Disaster