Rya Brean

“She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about.”

Plain Bad Heroines

Philippic

a bitter attack or denunciation, especially a verbal one.

"the lecture was a tremendous philippic against our culture

The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding

“It was uncomfortable to Merritt when she considered how readily she now marked time this way, how every event in her history seemed to plant itself only in proximity to his suicide.”

“Because even now, five —could it really be five? — years later, she didn’t actually feel all that much better about it. Not really — not enough — but what could