Alek

“I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking. My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it’s been intellectually defined,”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous