Sarah AF

“Their delusion is also tacit in the community heard defensive retort to Black Lives Matter that "all lives matter." Rather than being inclusive, "all" is a walled-off pronoun, a defensive measure to "not make it about race" so that the invisible hegemony of whiteness can continue unchallenged.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“Patiently educating a clueless white person about race is draining. It takes all your powers of persuasion. Because it’s more than a chat about race. It’s ontological. It’s like explaining to a person why you exist, or why you feel pain, or why your reality is distinct from their reality. Except it’s even trickier than that. Because the person has all of Western history, politics, literature, and mass culture on their side, proving that you don’t exist.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“They speak of 'the football season', but as far as I am aware the football season takes an entire calendar year to go full cycle. I believe there might be a day somewhere in early July, every other year, where football is not happening. One that day there is twenty-four hours of programming in which the men in front of the green screens discuss how much they can't wait to have football back.”
― Laura Lexx, Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob

“It is hard to love an addict. Not only practically difficult, in the picking up after them and the handling of those aspects of life they're not able for themselves, but metaphysically hard. It feels like bashing yourself against a wall, not just your head, but your whole self. It makes your heart hard. Caught between ultimatums (stop drinking) and radical acceptance (I love you no matter what) the person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis.”
― Emilie Pine, Notes To Self