Brent Woo

“For girls, junior high is a daily dystopian nightmare of apocalyptic emotional warfare. Kill or be killed. Gossip or be gossiped about.”
― Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

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I have a theory, almost all writers I know of are in some way or another… wrecked, or destroyed, you know, something is broken. Why should you write if that’s not so? I mean it takes so much to write, why should you bother?”
― Karl Ove Knausgård

“The brain is a trashcan, though perhaps the best of all possible trashcans.”
― Andrea Moro, The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

“Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some - and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under.”
― Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel