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“Our cities and suburbs have been shaped by the needs of cars in a way that makes their effects impossible to escape. Like the creepy feeling of an empty parking lot.”
― Woodrow Phoenix, Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car

“What was it like for them to leave home and cross the Pacific, with only the haziest plans for return? In the absence of available connections, they held onto an imaginary Taiwan, more an abstraction—a beacon, a phantom limb—than an actual island. The available technology delivered them there only on special occasions. So, they searched for traces of home in the faces of their classmates; they heard it wafting above the din when they shopped for groceries.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“Maybe the thing that made me uneasy was realizing that we weren’t very different after all. He often pondered the persona I had built for myself. Why did I insist on being so weird? What compelled me to order the most unusual item on the menu? Wasn’t it all a ploy to be noticed by others?”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“Cars don't inhibit space, they pass through it.

But they require that vast amounts of space be held available for that purpose at all times.

All that emptiness. But pedestrians can never cross it.

Dividing one side of a street from the other like a paradoxical quantum problem.

A space that is always temporarily occupied.”
― Woodrow Phoenix, Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car