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“word for this: sonder. “The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Incredible, how naming something took nothing away from its stagger. Language could be totally impotent like that.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“A photograph can say “This is what it was.” Language can only say “This is what it was like.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Only in a culture that privileged infallibility above all else could a man like President Invective rise to power—a man insulated since birth from any sense of accountability, raised in a pristine cocoon of inherited wealth to emerge pristine, dewy, wholly unsullied by those irksome mortal foibles, grief and doubt.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“She was Christian but American Christian, the kind that believed Jesus had just needed a bigger gun.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win. And more than that even, they seemed certain their natural state was to be happy, contented, and rich. The genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external, such was their certainty. And so legislators legislated, building border walls, barring citizens of there from entering here. “The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves,” said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty. But the next day they’d wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
Aaron’s 2025 Year in Books
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71 friends
252 books
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67 books
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150 books
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41 books
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15 books
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370 books
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