Laurel

“Technology, as he saw it, had finally succeeded in shrinking the globe, so much so that every news story felt dangerous and personal, every war a threat to his family, every firestorm, hurricane, and melting ice cap a local disaster, the seas boiling up around them, every cynical political and legal maneuver part of the same rotten fabric - and half the country somehow seeing it exactly the opposite way.”
― Jess Walter, So Far Gone

“When we cry, we save ourselves a little.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Heartbeat Library

“Time horizons—the point at which events are close enough to begin to feel real—tend to be much shorter for those with ADHD. For many of us, projects, tasks, and events exist either “now” or “not now”—and anything “not now” can feel as if it doesn’t exist at all.”
― Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain

“The whole Abrahamic world invests itself in this promise: Don't lie, don't cheat, don't fuck or steal or kill, and you'll be a good person. Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That's the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands. A rich man goes a whole day without killing a single homeless person and so goes to sleep content in his goodness. In another world, he's buying crates of socks and Clif bars and tents, distributing them in city centers. But for him, abstinence reigns.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!