perfect scentences
His negligence with me feels violent, his lack of response feels violent. After all, any calculation is a form of violence—just as my calling his violence violence is violence, but self-defense begs to be judged by an entirely different standard
Someone Has Said This Before
That $100,000 diploma has nothing to do with education and everything to do with the credential that puts you in a different boarding group for the rest of your career.
Boarding Group One
Airports are temples of hierarchy, to the point that the pecking orders are broadcast over the intercom
Boarding Group One
many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
Perfect Sentences, 158
Parenting is an arms race of enrichment activities
Boarding Group One
Now I’m lugging around this bag of laundry like it’s a dead body. Because it is a dead body
Fairytale of New Jersey
From a political perspective, it is probably easier to control people who are interested in furniture and wallpaper than people who are interested in clothes.
Perfect Sentences, 155
A civilized society does not heap furry sex memes on top of a grave.
Perfect Sentences, 158
A particular sinking horror intrudes, scaled proportionately to whether the broken thing is a pen or an aortic valve or a marriage.