Adam Rotstein

“After repeating this cycle, I would open a new browser window and begin the day’s true work: toggling between tabs.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“But I can’t stop myself from fixating on the way Avi spoke to me: his reticence to speak in any detail; his upbeat passive-aggression; the gentlest of impatience I could sense from both of them—“you seem fine,” “nothing you can do but move on.” I don’t like that he knows all this stuff about how I’m feeling—it’s humiliating. I’m beginning to feel a strange resentment towards him that I know is not his fault, but it makes me not want to hang out with him any more. I don’t like that my break-up has arranged us into roles where I’m falling apart and he’s always together. I know he’s not always together, but he confides in his wife and not me. The more I talk about how sad I am, the more my dignity is compromised, the more of an imbalance appears that I’m sure, on some secret level, he must enjoy.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“because to be canceled requires the two things I completely lack: identity and shame.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time. ”
― John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, a Parable