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“[...] most American cities have been designed or redesigned principally around the assumption of universal automotive use, resulting in obligatory car ownership, typically one per adult—starting at age sixteen. In these cities, and in most of our nation, the car is no longer an instrument of freedom, but rather a bulky, expensive, and dangerous prosthetic device, a prerequisite to viable citizenship.”
― Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

“Every march is an act of faith in this way: you have to trust your story will braid into history, even if you’ll never be able to tease out its thread.”
― Daniel Sherrell, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

“I knew that I loved you then, and that love could feel a little like fury.”
― Daniel Sherrell, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

“Everything we've consigned to the world of things, everything we've presumed dead, is revealing itself now to be in possession of a terrible agency, a higher-order control beyond what we ever could have imagined. Their inanimateness has been little more than a clever veil. They are autocrats at base, incapable of negotiation. The crust and the sky; the sludge, sea, and dust: these are are always have been the true subjects. It is we who are the objects now, intermediaries for their massive churn. And as we dig them up, they bury us—so slowly we barely notice.”
― Daniel Sherrell, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

“I no longer believe that grief and resistance are mutually exclusive: I think the former is necessary to the latter, that honest sorrow is perhaps the only thing that makes a real fight even possible. To mourn without fighting is to tap out at the exact moment we need to step in, but to fight without mourning is to grapple with a ghost, to try to stop something you've never actually realized.”
― Daniel Sherrell, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World