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“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

“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

“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

“It’s shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall, but the situation isn’t actually all that unusual. You wake up married, then your spouse dies over the course of the day. You wake up in peacetime and by noon your country is at war; you wake up in ignorance and by the evening it’s clear that a pandemic is already here.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility