Authors destroying me
“I don’t mind worriers,” I said. “Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
John Green • Turtles All the Way Down
The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing.
Hank Green • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel (The Carls Book 1)
I am good, but not good enough, which is worse than simply being bad. It is almost.
Raven Leilani • Luster
There was no single moment when everything changed. No single before and after. There was just… life. A million decisions and a million consequences.
Carissa Broadbent • Mother of Death and Dawn
“Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls—while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”
The Dark Forest: Theory of the Internet
It was as if the cure did not exist—because the disease was where the cure was not, and the cure was where the disease was not.
John Green • Everything Is Tuberculosis
“Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. And we control the music.”
V. E. Schwab • A Gathering of Shadows
To be human is to want that which we cannot have.”
Brandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
OCD dissolves perspective. It magnifies small risks, warps probabilities and takes statistical chance as a prediction, not a sign of how unlikely things are.