Alaine

“How often in life he has found himself a frustrated observer of apparently impenetrable systems, watching other people participate effortlessly in structures he can find no way to enter or even understand. So often that it’s practically baseline, just normal existence for him. And this is not only due to the irrational nature of other people, and the consequent irrationality of the rules and processes they devise; it’s due to Ivan himself, his fundamental unsuitedness to life. He knows this. He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“The Internet was a wonderful invention. It was a computer network which people used to remind other people that they were awful pieces of shit.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“More than anything, The One True God was a potent weapon used by sexually repressed members of society to inflict misery on everyone else.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me