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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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“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.”
― Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
― Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
― Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
― Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Joellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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