It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

by Joseph Fink

Sometimes it’s okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.

He was not so arrogant as to refer to his own death as The End, just one of billions of ends before The End. Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

“Hypothesis: Everything is frightening and we should hide,”

Astronomers and ornithologists in particular were always picking fights with each other, street corner ambushes that would start with the reading aloud of peer-reviewed research papers and end with the thrust of a broken bottle.

an optical illusion, which is a fancy, scientific phrase for a lie.

Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy?

but then, on a larger scale, she had considered only a tiny portion of true things in a world that is made almost entirely of them.

the usual six bathroom doors (Men, Women, No, Unsure, Angels, and This Too Too Solid Flesh).

There are moments in life in which it is made clear to us how vastly we have misunderstood.

It’s a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can’t be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person recognizing you, your bulk, the tangibility of your skin. That can mean everything.”

It’s like my mom says, ‘You can’t change the past without creating a cascading series of unintended consequences.’ She says that every morning and cries.”

Nilanjana felt like one of the most important parts of growing up, and of approaching the world as an adult, was understanding the difference between likable and good, and recognizing that one often had no effect on the other.

she decided that the kind of adult she wanted to be was one that lived openly as much as possible, even if that occasionally meant being open to pain.

“Aren’t we all, metaphorically, just looking for the bathroom?”

feeling happy, in the simple way children can and adults spend years and much of their money trying to recapture even a moment of.

A story never stands on its own, but exists in the context of the storyteller.

Science is designed to be an objective system of proof and disproof, but it is a system created by subjective people, so bias often enters into it in subtle, insidious ways.

Staples (“Life is a hallucination. Buy some pens. Who cares?”).

They did what all scientists do when following proper scientific method: (1) hypothesis; (2) argument; (3) fight; (4) cry; (5) hug.