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“How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?”
― Memorial
― Memorial
“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by the Societal System, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother.”
― Things I Don't Want to Know
― Things I Don't Want to Know
“The thing about losing your mind is that it happens when you’re not paying attention. Depression is like a bedbug infestation—you keep waking up with bite-sized welts of self-doubt and sadness that at first you rationalize away, tricking yourself into believing you’re not sleeping enough or are undercaffeinated or just have a teeny case of the blues. Then one day you can’t get out of bed. That lasts for a week. Now you’ve got a problem. *”
― Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays
― Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays
“When faced with a choice between an incriminating truth or a flattering lie, America's ruling class has been choosing the lie for four hundred years. White Americans hunger for plausible deniability and swaddle themselves in it and always have - for the sublime relief of deferred responsibility, the soft violence of willful ignorance, the barbaric fiction of rugged individualism. The worst among us have deployed it to seduce and herd the vast, complacent center: It's okay. You didn't do anything wrong. You earned everything you have. Benefiting from genocide is fine if it was a long time ago. The scientists will figure out climate change. The cat's name is Tardar Sauce. We have to kick this addition if we're going to give our children any kind of future.”
― The Witches Are Coming
― The Witches Are Coming
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