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“The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges.”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

“Later, when Su Lan was my wife, I would often be reminded of the crouching insecurity I had occasionally glimpsed in Bo. It was all rather simple, now that I think of it, the simple insecurity of being born poor. Today, it is clear this was the real reason she chose me over Bo: she was too recognizable to him. It did not matter that he alone, precisely because he had seen every part of her, could truly know her and thus truly love her. She did not want to be known, or perhaps, even, to be loved. She wanted more than anything to amputate that past from her self, to be accepted as the person she’d created, for her lover not to love her, but to make her someone new.”
― Meng Jin, Little Gods

“Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

“vandwellers are conscientious objectors from a broken, corrupting social order.”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century