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“Pandemics don’t approach like wars, with the distant thud of artillery growing louder every day and flashes of bombs on the horizon. The arrive in retrospect, essentially. It’s disorienting. The pandemic is far away and then it’s all around you with seemingly no intermediate step.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Bootstrap-pulling, frontier conquering, make-it-on-our-own ideologies are at the foundation of what's been coined "American.”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“I should have known, I've been an exterminator for eleven years, and I fucking hate it. Haven't always, though. The hate didn't come until a couple years in. That's always the case, isn't it? You don't see the cracks until the foundation's already set.”
― Mark Bouchard, It Took Luke: Overworked & Underpaid

“Loneliness if often exacerbated by a perception that one is lonely while everyone else is connected. It's exaggerated by a sensation of being outside something that others seem to be in on: a family, a couple, a friendship, a joke.
Perhaps now we can learn how flawed that kind of thinking is, because loneliness is one of the most universal things any person can feel.”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness