Joellen Corrocher

“Every time you hear Donald talking about how something is the greatest, the best, the biggest, the most tremendous (the implication being that he made them so), you have to remember that the man speaking is still, in essential ways, the same little boy who is desperately worried that he, like his older brother, is inadequate and that he, too, will be destroyed for his inadequacy.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“as young people move their social relationships online, those relationships become disembodied, asynchronous, and sometimes disposable.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day—he’s the smartest, the greatest, the best—to get him to do whatever they want, whether it’s imprisoning children in concentration camps, betraying allies, implementing economy-crushing tax cuts, or degrading every institution that’s contributed to the United States’ rise and the flourishing of liberal democracy.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“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.”
― Mary L. Trump, Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir