Philip Lopez

“Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“If you are going to be of support to others, you should not expect those people to be in a space where they have to hear your trauma, even if your intention is to find common ground. It’s not about common ground—common ground involves you.”
― Traci Baxley, Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World – An Empowering Guide to Diversity, Activism, and Meaningful Change

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“The next Crusades will be not religious but consumerist,”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism