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“Speaking of lowest, I would also like to give a very enthusiastic fuck you to my anxiety. Thanks for, as always, being the worst.”
― The Dead Romantics
― The Dead Romantics
“I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn.”
“Who said anything about transforming the world?” He shrugged. “What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we’re gone, it has transformed?”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“Who said anything about transforming the world?” He shrugged. “What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we’re gone, it has transformed?”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.
But I was wrong.
Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
- Florence Day”
― The Dead Romantics
But I was wrong.
Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
- Florence Day”
― The Dead Romantics
“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“Some of the studios behind these “freemium” mobile games even hired psychologists to try to figure out the best way to keep players addicted.”
― Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
― Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
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