Authors destroying me
No “we” should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
Susan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
Our failure is one of imagination, of empathy: we have failed to hold this reality in mind.
Susan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.
Susan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler

Lastly, and I know it sounds like an excuse, but neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.
Won-pyung Sohn • Almond
To be human is to want that which we cannot have.”
Brandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
