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Tonight is the night I’ve waited for my entire life—our initiation into Sterling Club, Princeton’s most prestigious eating club. It’s not just a place to have fun, it’s also a golden escalator to our future. Once inside, we’re bound by our secrets…and that creates a deep bond. It feels dangerous, cultlike, but isn’t fun always a little bit reckless?
I imagine my mother saying from wherever she is now to take every strange adventure life presents to experience the world, not shy away from it.
When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vise and makes you forget how to live life without them.
My mom died when I was eight, and I never knew my dad, so home became the friends that kept showing up, the spaces that welcomed me.
‘Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.’ Does anyone know who said that?” A girl with thick glasses raised her hand. “Economist Daniel Kahneman,”
How often, in the world, is silence what allows horrible people to get away with their crimes?
