Jamble

“They made a bunch of stupid toys. I remember seeing some at the store where Donatello was a basketball player. … He’s like five feet tall. I guess he could have been a John Stockton type, but the pick-and-roll wouldn’t have worked cuz none of the other turtles were tall either; they would have needed that giant robot body with Krang in his stomach to play power forward, and by that point I think there would have been just too much animosity for them to gel as a team. This book sucks.”
― Jon Moxley, MOX

“There is no art form more intrinsically and blatantly American—in its casual violence, its bombastic braggadocio, its virulent jingoism, its populist defiance of respectability, and its intermittently awe-inspiring beauty—than professional wrestling. This lucrative enterprise is not a legitimate competition, but it is indisputably an expression of creativity. Its practitioners have a time-worn saying: “This ain’t ballet.” But it’s not that far from ballet: a kinetic method of storytelling, one that requires tremendous skill (and physical pain) to perform.”
― Abraham Riesman, Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

“Barack Obama contradicts the image they have in their head for what a President looks like and sounds like, and it unsettles them on a subconscious level.

And then somebody presents an answer to why they feel uncomfortable. He's not from here. He wasn't born in this country, he was born in Kenya.

It doesn't matter that you or I can disprove that theory six ways to Sunday.

There's a part of their brains that feels relieved, because that lie gives them a sense of order.

They aren't bad people for feeling unsettled by a black President. They aren't racist. They're just smart enough to see through the ruse.

And that's when things get very dangerous for us.”
― James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

“We want to imagine that people are consistent, steady, stable. We define who they are, create descriptions to lock them on a page, divide them up by their likes, talents, beliefs. Then we pretend some—perhaps most—are better than we are, because they stick to their definitions, while we never quite fit ours. Truth is, people are as fluid as time is. We adapt to our situation like water in a strangely shaped jug, though it might take us a little while to ooze into all the little nooks. Because we adapt, we sometimes don’t recognize how twisted, uncomfortable, or downright wrong the container is that we’ve been told to inhabit.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea