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“They are always waiting, the people of the Undersea. They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world. —Czeslaw Milosz The Separate Notebooks”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“[Affect] presents a way of incorporating intensity into our interpretations of experiences, both qualitatively and quantitatively, as intensity augments, but it also drives and suggests.”
― Zizi Papacharissi, Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, and Politics

“I would fall in love with someone’s potential rather than with who they actually were. I’d walk in, find a guy who was smart and funny but a complete mess, and light up like a talent agent from the 1950s. I’d think to myself, “This kid’s gonna be a star!” I’d take on a guy the way Michelle Pfeiffer took on the punk-ass kids from Dangerous Minds, seeing the best in them and pushing them to be better. And also like Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, I had to teach a couple of guys how to read. Of course, this dynamic caused my relationships to feel maternal, making my partner resent me and making sex feel like incest. To add insult to injury, I basically ended up coaching a guy to be the best he can be for the next girl who came along. To anyone dating my exes, you’re welcome for getting them together so you could have the perfect boyfriend. Love you, girl.”
― Whitney Cummings, I'm Fine...And Other Lies