Kate

“A constant state of low-level dread made people easy to control, because it robbed them of the sense that they could control anything themselves. This was not the sort of anxiety that moved people to action and accomplishment. This was the sort of anxiety that exceeded human capacity.”
― Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

“There are many people who like me, and many people who don’t. For most of my life, I figured that one group was wrong, but I could never be certain which one. Either I was likable, and some people just didn’t know me well enough to see it, or I was unlikable, and some people were just patient with me.”
― Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

“No one ever tells good-looking dudes when they talk too fucking much.”
― Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“Relationships are teleological. They’re all going somewhere and they’re turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy