We aren’t just guzzling wine because of, say, our dopamine; we’re getting absolutely shitfaced because to exist in a world where our labor is our value, where families and communities are disappearing, where a Kardashian’s contouring trick
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“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“I didn’t feel the same kind of dread I’d felt in 2016—not because I was more confident, but because we were living through so many contemporaneous tragedies that it was impossible to stay constantly attuned to the potential for even more catastrophe and still function.”
― Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
― Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
“we were living through so many contemporaneous tragedies that it was impossible to stay constantly attuned to the potential for even more catastrophe and still function.”
― Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
― Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
“as young people move their social relationships online, those relationships become disembodied, asynchronous, and sometimes disposable.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“They need to shriek with their friends while watching a horror movie or riding a roller coaster.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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