Chrissy Schmitzer
https://www.goodreads.com/chrissyschmitzer
Culpability
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Empathetic dysfunction, her therapists call it, a sometimes debilitating response to an overload of impersonal but negative information.
“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“Is everything that happened to me before the age of seventeen really going to be the most important thing about me for the next seventy?”
― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey
“Even before the boxes appeared, the traditional barriers of privacy had long been collapsing, hers already a society of over-sharers. Maura, like so many others, had posted photo after photo online—of decadent meals, of the view from her office, of weekends at the beach with Nina—each one encouraging people to pry deeper and deeper into others’ lives, to expect a certain degree of transparency. Until, finally, even the act of looking at your string—what should have been the most intimate, the most personal of moments—became just another insight into your life that no longer belonged to you alone.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“Once people start believing that a certain group is out to get them—that immigrants are stealing their jobs, and gay couples are undermining marriage, and feminists are falsely accusing them of rape—it doesn’t take much to get us to turn on each other.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
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