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“It is hard to build a myth so large without eventually becoming part of it.”

“It isn’t the second crossover, the one that actually finishes [Michael Jordan]. It’s when he bites on the first, smaller one. When he admits a willingness to be fooled. It’s all a negotiation of what someone will open up their body to. A negotiation of disbelief, really: what can be sold and who is willing to buy it.”

“All of the best showmen hid behind their names and their gold.”

“No matter how obsessed you’ve been with your own vanishing, there will always be someone who still wants you whole.”

“There is something about setting eyes on the people who hold you up instead of simply imagining them.”

im getting to the part where it’s lowkey fall out boy rpf

this book, published in 2017, has a lot of thoughts about 2016 and how awful it really was. and i don’t know, it feels crazy to read it in retrospect in 2025.

“Sadness, when you are truly being swallowed by it, can feel almost universal. Not the vehicle that drives you to the doorstep of sadness, and certainly not the way it manifests itself inside of you.”

“I understand what it is to be sad, even when everyone around you is demanding your happiness—and what are we to do with all of that pressure other than search for a song that lets us be drained of it all?”

“I thought, as I do every time I hear the song, about living the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The machinery of a mundane week that wears one down until it becomes normal […] How it all feels different on a Friday, at the edge of a weekend, when anything is possible.”

“We are nothing without our quick and simple blessings, without those willing to drag optimism by its neck to the gates of grief and ask to be let in, an entire choir of voices singing at their back.”