Olive

“Sam looked at the sky to see if there were a lot of stars. There seemed to be a normal amount of stars.”
― Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel

“It was the first time that I fully understood myself to be subsumed within a social system that was unjust, brutal, punitive--that women were suffering because men had dominion over them, that men were suffering because they were expected to perform this dominion, that power had been stacked so unevenly, so long ago, that there was very little I could do.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.”
― Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel