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Second-grade Wren’s reasoning was that a life too noticeable might be stolen, and conversely, a wispy existence might blow away or be stepped on. Medium was safe.
Wren’s teacher, who wrote secret poetry on the weekend, found this sentiment lovely, wise, and replete rather than an indicator that a child was already carrying too much of the world.

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When Wren was in elementary school, the class attached paper wishes to the dream catchers they made with yarn and disposable plates. In thick marker, Wren wrote her dream:

A Medium-Sized Life.

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But the best revenge is to thrive.

Excerpt From
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang

Recommended read by Stephen King.

But maybe there ain't no endings.
Maybe there's only ever just beginnings.
I'd like to believe that. I really would.

Issue 1 pg. 3

I just want to be left alone and I want things to be like they were. It was so much easier when I was little.
I didn't feel so much.

Issue 1 pg. 3

I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE AND I WANT THINGS TO BE LIKE THEY WERE. IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER WHEN I WAS LITTLE.
I DIDN'T FEEL SO MUCH.

Upon starting this series I hadn't realized that I'd read a previous work by Jeff Lemire, The Underwater Welder. I loved that comic so I have high hopes for Sweet Tooth.

Being human was a pretty steep learning curve.
I had to make most of it up as I went along.

Like facets of a jewel they catch the light,
With all their precious moments kept intact,
And every hug and each unselfish act
Shall long outlive the stars, if Einstein's right.

They seem not to know about a lot of things.
But They love to talk about them anyways.

I wouldn't worry about it. you guys are in eighth grade. Nobody makes good decisions in eighth grade.
Maybe they'll invite you over to dance, and maybe they won't.
A year from now, it won't matter - all that will matter is whether you had fun.

Food sounds really great until I see it in front of me.
I guess it's not possible to just stop eating, right?
Maybe I'll waste away. That would be very literary.

Excerpt From Ice Cream Man #35:

Social media; prestige TV; listening to the monologue inside your head as it tells you how fake and repulsive you are; arguing with your conservative family; cat video after cat video after goddamn cat
video. All these things will suck time right from your face, leaving nothing behind but a hollow, listless shell who is desperate to claw back just a few of those precious lost minutes.

Social media; prestige TV; listening to the monologue inside your head as it tells you how fake and repulsive you are; arguing with your conservative family; cat video after cat video after goddamn cat
video. All these things will suck time right from your face, leaving nothing behind but a hollow, listless shell who is desperate to claw back just a few of those precious lost minutes.

Recommended read by Stephen King

Alix is not a dramatic or a reactive person. She is a person who likes to step away from situations that make her feel bad, to look at them objectively as if they were happening to somebody else, and then make a decision based on how best to keep the peace and maintain the status quo, because Alix [...] needs to [...] for the sake of all of them. She has too much to lose by acting in rage, far too much.

Sarah’s fingers moved up my face, a shadow in the darkness above me, and I shut my eyes against them.“Everybody’s going to get what they deserve,” she said.

And when I half-rose, half-leaned over Mrs. Underwood’s desk to put a bullet in Ted Jones, Dan’s big chance came. My body half-twisted toward him. He fired his weapon and put the bullet exactly where he had hoped and expected to put it: through my breast pocket, which lay directly over the living machine of my heart.

Where it struck the hard steel of Titus, the Helpful Padlock.

We Americans are much higher on simple understanding. It makes it easier to read the billboards when you’re heading into town on the expressway at plus-fifty. To comprehend, the mental jaws have to gape wide enough to make the tendons creak. Understanding, however, can be purchased on every paperback-book rack in America

Excerpt from Rage

Anyway I bet Im the frist dumb persen in the world who found out some thing inportent for sience. I did somthing but I dont remembir what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me in Warren and all over the world.

Goodby Miss Kinnian and dr Strauss and evrybody…

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Anyway thats why Im gone to keep trying to get smart so I can have that feeling agen. Its good to no things and be smart and I wish I new evrything in the hole world. I wish I coud be smart agen rite now. If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

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Yes, suddenly we discover that I was always a person—even before—and that challenges your belief that someone with an I.Q. of less than 100 doesn’t deserve consideration. Professor Nemur, I think when you look at me your conscience bothers you.”

Excerpt From
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes

Well, believe it or not, I am grateful. But what you did for me—wonderful as it is—doesn’t give you the right to treat me like an experimental animal. I’m an individual now, and so was Charlie before he ever walked into that lab. You look shocked!

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“Everything but treat me as a human being. You’ve boasted time and again that I was nothing before the experiment, and I know why. Because if I was nothing, then you were responsible for creating me, and that makes you my lord and master. You resent the fact that I don’t show my gratitude every hour of the day.

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“Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again—to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I’ll have at least that.”

Excerpt From
Flowers for Algernon

I’ve got to realize that when they continually admonish me to speak and write simply so that people who read these reports will be able to understand me, they are talking about themselves as well. But still it’s frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don’t know all the answers.

excerpt

April 3—Finished Robinson Crusoe. I want to find out more about what happens to him but Miss Kinnian says thats all there is. WHY.

Excerpt From
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
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Acknowledgements:
To Axl: thanks for putting up with my shit and being my friend in those dark hours.
To Izzy: thanks for leading the way and being a mentor.
To Slash: thanks for being such a musical inspiration.
To Steven Adler: I will always love you like a brother.
To Matt Sorum: you’re a lion of a man.
To Dave Kushner: you are the real hero of Velvet Revolver.
To Scott Weiland: keep on, my friend.

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I guess the assholes get weeded out and longevity tends to happen for those who see themselves as serving the music. I like that.