Rickey

“Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become tainted, like most things American, by the puritanical paradigm of original sin.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“That he wishes someone needed him? That his life isn’t enough? No. It’s enough. It has to be enough.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“But I hate having my life judged as the output of generic forces, that however I understand or react to them is secondary to the fact that I share them with others. Identity is diet history, single-serving sociology; at its worst, a patriotism of trauma, or a prosthesis of personality.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“you don’t need anyone’s help to feel inadequate and a failure and worthless. Because no one is as good at making us feel all those things as we are ourselves.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners