Dave Mills

“Those who have a desperate need for others are more vulnerable to the exploitation of bad people than those who are perfectly fine in their own company.”
― Selim Güre, The Occult of the Unborn

“There's a strange contradiction revealed by the naivete and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a though, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct.”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

“At home my parents were always talking about ‘feelings’ and ‘people’, and when my friends came round they loved it, because my parents talked about ‘who they were’. I was like: ‘Why can’t we just be a normal family and talk neutrally about facts?’ I felt this wasn’t a life, to be constantly thinking about… consciousness.”
― Toby Jones

“I am not a good friend. I have never been capable of or willing to commit to the maintenance that the rules of friendship dictate. I cannot rmember bithdays. I do not want to meet for coffee. I will not host the baby shower. I won't text back because it's an eternal game of Ping-Pong, the texting. It never ends. I inevitably disappoint friends, so after enough of that, I decided I would stop trying. I don't want to live in constant debt. This is okay with me.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life