Angel’s Reviews > Beartown > Status Update

“Another morning comes. It’s always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifeline or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.”

“Sometimes life doesn’t let you choose your battles. Just the company you keep.”

“…You’re not alone. You’ve never been alone. You just need to be better at choosing the company you keep.”

“What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”

“…the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that’s easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek facts to confirm what we believe —comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy…nothing is easier than taking her name away from her.”

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It demands. Hate is simple.”

“If you were to ask Filip’s mom why she doesn’t protest, she would say that you can love something without loving everything about it. You don’t have to be embarrassed about not being proud.”

“One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position or have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don’t say as what you do say.”

“Jokes are powerful like that, they can be both inclusive and exclusive. Can create both an Us and a Them.”

“That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”