And with my own feeling that the process of self-creation

involved a fair amount of violence to myself.

– Agnes Callard, Against advice

The myth of advice

is the possibility that we can transform one another with the most glancing contact.

– Agnes Callard, Against advice

All the things

a photograph can't tell you.

There's a small list of absolutely lovely people

that I have hated for no reason.

We are the antidote

to an apathetic universe.

– Mark Russell, Fantastic Four: Life Story #1

Love has to stop

somewhere short of suicide.

– Dodsworth

If the endpoint of contemporary citizenship is to own things,

and the endpoint of contemporary architecture is to store things, we should rightfully name things the architects of the 21st century.

– Daisy Alioto, Dirt: Coping with things

Good for you,

you look happy in hell.

– a mishearing of Olivia Rodrigo's 'Good 4 u'

Order is chaos

yet again, eventually.

Chaos is order

not yet defined.

You don't want

a friend like me.

Instead of making things just as useful,

we've made things just as irrelevant.

I was made for the library,

not the classroom.

– Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and me

They're putting information

on the internet.

The aesthetics

of awkwardness.

We know the answers.

We just don't like how they apply to us.

The ultimate hidden truth of the world

is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

– David Graeber

Instead of analyzing the world in order to change it,

you just monitor it for risk.

– Adam Curtis