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Vending machine?

I wish I had the faith in humanity Brandon Sanderson has. Wouldn’t that be nice.

"In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren’t like 'everyone else,' and after a while Tress figured that the group “everyone else” must include only her."

I thought Brandon Sanderson learned his lesson to leave this topic alone! I don't need a man in his 30s expounding on what it means to be a normal girl. He's not the one.

In general we must not wish for the disappearance of any of
our troubles, but grace to transform them.

"Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Generally what we expect of others depends on the effect
of gravity upon ourselves, what we receive from them depends
on the effect of gravity upon them."

Simone Weil. She's literally insane. Actual crazy person. Who else can come up with things like that.

Did you want an answer? Well you’re next going to get it…

Camus is someone you have to feel before you understand which is why this is a Rosetta Stone of his work. Suddenly his obsession with the sea and sky is something I understand.

this is making me miss when I wrote bad poems

The contrast between humor and darkness is just so on point. It’s on point.

Her daughter doesn’t know what an ocean is…

At first I hated Natalie. I hated her so bad I thought she was like June from Yellowface. Now I think she’s like Lady Macbeth or Cersei Lannister. I hate her. But I’m invested.

she’s the worst?

I did not expect the first page to name drop Boston College John J Burns Library. They need to add that to the tws.

This is like if 1984 and Brave New World had a baby born in Japan.

There’s something interesting about language, memory, and semiotics. I am going to need someone smarter to explain it to me though.

Some light reading

"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”