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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my years on this planet, American culture has unrealistic expectations about happiness and balance. We live in a fractured society in which social media filters and AI create a false front. Everyone
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“A character in the book is asked what the greatest wonder in the world is. And he answers … He says, The greatest wonder is that every day, all around us, people die, but we act as if it couldn’t happen to us.”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“Burning a book made me angry because I knew I was setting fire to a world.”
― The Unworthy
― The Unworthy
“In truth the way matters little; the will to arrive suffices.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“Are we ever fully honest with someone else? I don’t mean to suggest outright lies, but do we really express those quieter, deeper feelings? Those amorphous, hazy things, core things that even we struggle to admit to ourselves. Do we share everything?”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“How rude of the dead to die. How selfish. Wherever they are, no pain, in eternal darkness or wondrous afterlife. And here we are, tears streaming down our cheeks, the knotted stomach and clammy palms, a feeling akin to falling, in a dream that won’t end.”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
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