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(For my first assignment, I gave Crissy a list of the weirdest ways people learned that the queen had died, including a lot who learned from the account of a pretend American Girl doll on Twitter, and
“I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with, and the life we live with after that.”
― Open and Shut
― Open and Shut
“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Words are important. They let you know it’s real, you’re fine, more people like you exist. They let you know you’re not alone.”
― Chameleon Moon
― Chameleon Moon
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes 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 makes demands. Hate is simple. So 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 out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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