Matt Dobbins

“Claiming to be offended is a great way to elevate yourself at the expense of others: “Look at me! I'm a much better person than you! And I judge you! I condemn you! Shame! Shame! SHAME!” These social media shamings bear an uncanny resemblance to medieval witch hunts.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories: The Heroin Scene in Fort Myers

“I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“divided America. On one side are the protected few—the winners—who don’t need government for much and even have a stake in sabotaging the government’s responsibility to all of its citizens. For them, the new, broken America works fine, at least in the short term. On the other side are the unprotected many, who rely on government, as they always have, to protect and preserve their way of life and maybe even improve it. That divide is the essence of America’s tailspin. The protected overmatched, overran, and paralyzed the government.”
― Steven Brill, Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It

“Our families are defined by far more than just blood, so sometimes it’s necessary to cut the cord with who came before so that we can find our way to who we need right now”
― E.B. Johnson