Parties are only fun if they’re unreasonable.

to join with others to shape a future is the holiest act. This is hard work, and it never stops being hard, but this collective dreaming/designing is the only way we get to keep surviving, and this practice defines us as a community.

Some jobs are almost twice as hard as others, and maybe those shifts need to be shorter. Some people have a higher capacity than others. Work is more complicated than people realize.”

Sometimes one of the girls who seems about my age looks at me and smiles. Sometimes I even smile back, and feel a different shyness from my normal kind.

they love structure in anything, except for their actual lives.

You could do whatever you felt like in Argelo, but so could everybody else.

“You keep bragging about how you walked through the jaws of death so many times you became their personal dentists.

People chant slogans, but I only hear vowels.

“Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.”