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“The point is to let me give you this one small thing, because I couldn’t give you the rest.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“God, how much he annoys her sometimes, but God, how she loves him. It wasn’t a love that developed gradually, it hit her like an affliction. It’s an ongoing condition.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“language can do so much to squash independent thinking, obscure truths, encourage confirmation bias, and emotionally charge experiences such that no other way of life seems possible. The way a person communicates can tell us a lot about who they’ve been associating with, who they’ve been influenced by.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“There are few words that are harder to explain than “loyalty.” It’s always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown