J Torres

“Don’t look too far ahead. That was what Olaf used to say. Before she killed him”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“Life at Hoover’s sang in all of us without knowing we’d ever lose the song. But the song has dimmed into a memory of an era where hardship sculpted character and the resulting music spoke in a soothing voice you never saw coming. Country blood runs clean, and clean ain’t what this world sings no more.”
― Josh Brolin, From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor

“It’s funny. At first, I think you start getting high to dull your emotions, to escape from them. But after a while you realize that the drugs are what are making your life untenable, they are actually what are heightening every emotion you have. It’s making your heartbreak harder, your good times higher. So coming down really does start to feel like rediscovering sanity. And when you rediscover your sanity, it’s only a matter of time before you start to get an inkling of why you wanted to escape it in the first place.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“myself—like Johnson, a solid hand at running the old Stata models—came to virtually identical conclusions writing for the online journal Quillette in 2021, noting that “between 2019—by no means a famously peaceful year—and 2020, homicides alone surged by 42 percent during the summer and [another] 34 percent during the fall.”34 Left-leaning magazines and journals like Vox largely attributed this trend to general chaos associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.35 However, I noted that an alternative explanation fits the data far better: crime leapt like 1990s Mike Jordan because many large police departments had their budgets cut, and almost all of them reeled in their stops dramatically.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula