“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
“I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Basically, do your best to mock and deride their connection to and appreciation of you because, deep down, you dislike yourself enough that you cannot imagine anyone worthwhile actually wanting to be with you. I mean, if they like you, there must be something wrong with them, right?”
― 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
“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
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