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“There’s a languid pleasure in waiting. The feeling of being suspended. You might look down, sometimes, and think that you are far from the ground, like you might drop if you didn’t fly so hard. You might become scared of what might happen. But if you look back in front of you, where there is clear sky, where you can see the obstacles coming and you take them one at a time, it’s like waiting, not moving. It’s like suddenly becoming aware that you are alive. Is waiting when we are most alive?”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“But there’s one thing that I understand, and it is that when all those emotional vertebrae broke and reformed they had a different quality. They began to have a word-making, listen-to-me quality. They began to know they were worth more.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“Katharine shakes her head. ‘“You can’t make entertainment out of serious issues,” they said. Charlie Chaplin made The Great Dictator!”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“You know you are a woman who said something interesting on the internet when you receive death threats. It is like graduating, but instead of smiling at your parents you cry to your pillow for several weeks when no one is around and contemplate your own worthlessness until you get angry and creative and emerge some sort of burning, fuschine dragon.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

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― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“difficult to show the team what has been”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“I think about how many people I know who try to brush off the fact that their ‘agenda’ might be something that exists. That it might be to tell a story that isn’t just the same as everyone else’s. The very idea of being accused of an agenda in itself: what a horrifying prospect. The idea that people might want to be heard! It was as if Karla, right there, had screamed at the top of her voice over almost everyone in the games industry. I have an agenda. I have a fucking agenda. I imagine her standing in front of an audience made up of everyone in attendance at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and pointing at people: ‘YOU have an agenda. And YOU have an agenda. And YOU have one too. I HAVE A FUCKING AGENDA.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“Meanwhile, Terry has received a giant chocolate birthday cake. There is a unanimous decision amongst the attendees that he should headbutt it. He does so; chocolate chips fly everywhere. Later, he will punch the cake, and it will fragment across the floor. I have it on good authority some impish guests goaded him into it.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers