Hope Carlson

“to live for others despite still not knowing how to live for herself.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“The sun had already set. The Greater Khingan Mountains were gray and indistinct, just like Ye’s life. In this gray life, a dream appeared especially colorful and bright. But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun—which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope. In that moment Ye saw the rest of her life suffused with an endless grayness.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Equalization is present in every experience because the drive to equalize is emotion itself. Sadness is a feeling of powerlessness to make up for a perceived loss. Anger is the desire to equalize through force and aggression. Happiness is feeling liberated from pain, while guilt is the feeling that you deserve some pain that never arrived.10”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Henderson had learned the hard way the dangers of irony in a culture so committed to its deceptions, to those obvious lies that held together its violent rationales.”
― Mab Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy: A Story of Racism and Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum