Maddie

“words are the medium through which belief systems are manufactured, nurtured, and reinforced, their fanaticism fundamentally could not exist without them.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“But knowing everything is too much like knowing nothing; without a story, it’s all just information.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“I like to watch the sunset. It’s always surprised me how little people grieve when darkness overtakes the light.”
― Elizabeth Gonzalez James, The Bullet Swallower