Elise Seanor

“Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Uncoolness is pretty much Judaism’s brand, which is why cool people find it so threatening—and why Jews who are willing to become cool are absolutely necessary to Hanukkah antisemitism’s success. These “converted” Jews are used to demonstrate the good intentions of the regime—which of course isn’t antisemitic but merely requires that its Jews publicly flush thousands of years of Jewish civilization down the toilet in exchange for the worthy prize of not being treated like dirt, or not being murdered.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

“What is magic, if not something that makes you believe and feel and wonder?”
― Stephanie Garber, Alchemy of Secrets

“You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth