Andy Hackett

“Like I said, it’s the way I was brought up. It was the way they were brought up.” He smiled to himself. “You should see my mother at Christmas, when my grandma is coming around for dinner. She gets into this panic that nothing is good enough, and my grandma always complains about this and that, just to annoy her, and all I want to say is, ‘Doesn’t this look familiar to you?’ But I never do.”
― Bella Forrest, Harley Merlin and the Broken Spell

“ennui”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens in the hearts of those of us who have consciously or unconsciously bought into the insidious, rampant, and ongoing devaluation of black lives. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“So, to Papaw and Mamaw, not all rich people were bad, but all bad people were rich.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis