Bryce Van Vleet > Recent Status Updates

If it hangs around long enough, humans will assign significance to anything. What finite softies!

“Humans who insist opportunity is not a pie have usually enjoyed the majority of slices.”

“She is nineteen Earth years old with the life of a middle-aged divorcée. Is this all there is?”

“There’s a reason it’s called alien-ated. Because I am an alien, I am alone.”

SURRENDER WAS ON THE TABLE?! Everything you learn about our history is just. so. dark.

“We don’t belong here. There’s no good in the Zone.”

Scientists accustomed to working with limited resources and virtually no deadlines now had to adjust to a world of virtually unlimited resources and exacting deadlines.

“If she believed the boardwalk T-shirts, a woman was a ball or chain, someone stupid you’re with, someone to lie to so a man can drink beer. If she believed television fathers, women were a constant pain, wanting red roses or a nice dinner out. If she learned how to be a girl from songs, it was worse. If she learned from other girls, worse still.”

I love finding mistakes in books - a reminder we’re all doing the best we can.

Men are so scary

“My two great loves are physics and New Mexico. It’s a pity the can’t be combined.”

I’m gonna need the pacing to pick up

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.”

“She was all of the above and none of the above, practically the whole census in one person.”

You love to see it.

I don’t want to go to bed 😩

“There’s no faith to be had in something that’s right in front of you.”

“Back in the Beforetimes, at thirty thousand feet, the deep need for control in the human psyche was on display - and it was on display at ground level, too, when you looked at city streets or manicured lawns, or thought about how everything had a fence around it.”

“I’m done letting the world cut us down any further. It’s whittled us this far, but now it’s going to go the other way. It’s going to whittle us sharp. Sharper. Shuttle us into spear tips, whet us into knife blades.”

I feel like we can stop calling it “Indian style”

She makes me so anxious

“But half the time a bitch in love and an idiot be the same damn bitch. Me, specifically.”

It’s hard when you gotta be you but other people wanna force all kinda shit on you that you don’t want… people just tryna control the hell out of one another all the damn time.”

Child, I got so much to be depressed about I can’t even get started.

“They let white folks do whatever shit they want and call it science.”

CARLOTTA

“You’ve been abroad for a while?”
What you mean, a woman?

I screamed

“A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well - and wishing that it would do better.”