Crimson

“L)ife was ridiculous and absurd, and sometimes the only way to keep it from overwhelming us was to laugh right in its face.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

“There is nothing wrong with second place. Your best effort is all that anyone's asking for. And if you give your best and you come in second, you come in third, you come in last, it's not about winning or losing. It's about giving it everything you've got.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan

“On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology. Meaning, before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan

“People need an attachment to three different things at the same time in order to fight this feeling of Isolation: they need the ability to dream and hope and imagine a better future; they need an attachment to the Real and the people and communities and the beating heart of the world, the moment that they are in and a sense of belonging; and Memory and the past and reckoning with but also understanding and knowing the story of where you came from and where the people that you love came from and what has happened in the past.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan