“Still, like the proverbial politician in a dumpster, it was a good start.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“If that sounds like hypocrisy to you, well, we like to call it politics.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Not that he’d done anything specific. Charlie wasn’t really a “do things” kind of person. He was a “be things” kind of person. Making decisions was easier around him—as if he were an emotional lubricant easing the machinery of the heart”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Doug” is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wakeup call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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