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home, more specifically a child’s bedroom, no longer offers a sanctuary from the challenges of navigating tween and teen friendships. As a result, there’s less time for social and emotional processing, and less of an opportunity to slow
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“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won’t just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.”
― Galactic Pot-Healer
― Galactic Pot-Healer
“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”
― The Belle of Amherst
― The Belle of Amherst
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