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“We are irrational beings, easy to manipulate if you're willing to do whatever it takes. That's exactly how terrorists convince themselves that murder is worthwhile. And the wound it left, it was larger than those lives lost; it was a wound we would all have to live with forever. The purity of my feeling for Carl was gone and I would never get it back.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Not that I wasn’t also having fun. Ripping the Defenders’ arguments to shreds and then reading all the comments agreeing passionately with me and electronically patting me on my cybershoulders was thrilling. It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Soph’s 2025 Year in Books
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