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Janelle Brown
“We are undone by the specificity of our dreams. Reality can never live up to the shining edifices we forge inside our fantasies: Life, in all its confusing complexity, is destined to be a disappointment in comparison. The lottery winner discovers that the riches don’t equal happiness; the longed-for baby is colicky and sour; losing fifty pounds still doesn’t bring you love; winning the election doesn’t trigger societal change. Life is a constant emotional calibration, then: the tiny adjustments we make every day as we come up against our discontents. We ride this seesaw, between hope and disenchantment, seeking some sort of equilibrium.”
Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

Janelle Brown
“The irony, of course, is that kids believe that knowledge unlocks happiness. More than anything, they crave access to all the things that they aren’t supposed to know yet; as if being privy to the secrets of the world will open up some magical door to adulthood. They believe that if you know, you will understand. But in fact, the opposite is true. The more you come to know about the world, the less it makes sense; and the more you wish you could just climb right back inside your mother’s arms and hide there, an oblivious kid, forever.”
Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

Sam Anderson
“The Oklahoma City Thunder, the young dynasty with every success in front of it, never made it back to the NBA Finals. I’m sorry, but that’s how this story ends. If, at some point in the wide Oklahoma future, the Thunder ever does make it back, it will be as a different team, with different major players, and the sparkle of youth will be in nobody’s eyes.”
Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“We have cats. The father is not very useful.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

Janelle Brown
“Life is amazing. Right? It’s easy to forget it, but then you have these moments that remind you how incredible it is that we even fucking exist. The rest of it—all the crap we worry about, the cerebral contortions we go through to try to make meaning of existence—is nothing at all compared to the miracle that we can do this. Just being together with other human beings. Dancing. Alive.”
Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

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