"If you go exploring Mansion Derry, you'll find all sorts of things. Yes. You may be sorry later but you'll find them, and once a thing is found it can't be unfound, can it?"
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Maybe we ought to blame Disney movies--our earliest point of indoctrination that there needs to be a hero and a bad guy in every story line. The hero wins, the villain loses, and the credits roll.
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"...we are our circumstances. And until we have experienced all the circumstances the world can throw at us, seen all the versions we can be, we cannot claim to know ourselves. How, then, do we start to know someone else?"
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"The Internet is indifferent. It's the people who ruin it, posting only highlights, like every night is Saturday night. But most of life is Wednesday afternoon, and no one thinks that's meaningful. They omit loneliness and tedium. The people who do post honestly are considered whiners."
I love that passage SO MUCH
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From the introduction
“...we have, from the outset, grossly underestimated this virus, its mode of transmission, virality and effects on the body and, ultimately, the damaging effect on our society.“
(Page 14)
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Jack nervously circled my ankles, so I picked him up and held him. He purred, but he didn‘t sit easy in my arms. I guess even cats worry about those they love.
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“Dictators don‘t achieve power by announcing their intent to enslave people, Brandt,” Sanders said. “That‘s bad P.R.”
“They‘re always the first to claim violations of their personal rights,” Russo added, “and the last to grant those same rights to anyone else.”
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“The undercurrent of unresolved pain is brutal and insidious. These are the unseen scars of a scapegoated child. I wondered whether I would ever heal. My emotional state vacillated between injured and caretaker, trying to nurture my own soul.“
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