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the whole ‘socially liberal / fiscally conservative’ song and dance back when he first started out—as if you can be socially liberal when you’re against funding social justice—
tired isn’t always a physical thing.
Black women don’t have the same leeway for righteous anger that everyone else gets.
Why isn’t Gritty immortal and magical by now?
Some people have no business being both manipulative and deeply kind.
no corporation needs help from eldritch abominations to do awful things. Neither does ICE.
“Should we be more afraid of the sword, or the hand that wields it?”
we don’t call the police here unless there’s a life-threatening situation happening,
“All human beings, across every culture, gather in numbers and tell stories and come up with new ways of doing things. Creativity and social living are the only real constants that every single human species has had,
Mayoral campaigns are slow-moving explosions, gathering force and energy until some critical mass is reached and the whole thing fusionbursts into victory—or fizzles into dust.
New York is a city awash in free books.
Hong is sensitive to information warfare these days, for understandable reasons.
With shaking hands, she grabs a sheet of graphing paper; when she wants to be sure about a thing, she likes the comfort of handwritten calculations.
He, a man living in a literal fantasyland of safe, enforced whiteness, thinks Veneza is “too sensitive” and needs to “toughen up.”
Americans always seem to expect the performance of friendliness, even when they aren’t being friendly.
family ain’t always the one you get born with. Real family’s the people who are there when you need ’em.”
They make small talk for a while. Right to business is for enemies and the untrusted; friends catch up first, and family gets all the gossip.
That’s way more time than she likes to spend, unoccupied, in her own company.
Colonialism was a mass casualty event for us, and not that long ago by elder standards.”
American politics aren’t truly democratic; if it isn’t whole demographics being excluded from the franchise, it’s corporations and wealthy donors endlessly meddling with the whole system.
Neek is some kind of polymath genius, self-educated and unacknowledged because Americans don’t actually seem to like when people who aren’t well-off white men turn out to be smart.
What is math to her is art to him—but there’s not as much daylight between art and math as most people seem to think.
It’s worse when you get used. When somebody fucks with your head, makes you think you want something that you really don’t.
“Madness isn’t as bad as everyone makes it out to be—and I wasn’t going to die from a little identity confusion, come on.”
“So yeah, you hate yourself. I mean, how you gonna love something if you hurt it like that?”
we ain’t all gotta like each other to work together.
I had to change one of my initial planned plots for this book—a monstrous president waging war on his own hometown—because Trump got there first.
