Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why Quotes

“At the end of the day, there is only one way to parent: wrong.”
― Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

“[That five-year-old refugee] has plans to grow up to become the most terrifying thing in the world: an American.”
― Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

“Time is different when you are a child. Every day stretches into forever. New worlds can be invented and discarded in the course of a single afternoon. And America can be a place that has always done a thing, or America can be a place that has never done a thing, except in stories or in nightmares.

If we stop this now, right now, this instant, after a year, or two, or three, there will be children who know that America would never do such a thing. And then we must keep not doing it. We must stop this, until they are not children any longer, and then never do it again.”
― Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

“A little child was in the audience [at Donald Trump’s inauguration], and he started to cry, because the emperor was wearing so many clothes.”
― Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

“The good news about approaching a black hole is that you will live a very long time. The bad news about approaching a black hole is that you will never die.”
― Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

“Indeed, we have much less need of imagination than we did before. Once, people could make whole careers conjuring up outlandish things that were not happening. No longer! Now, we need simply watch. Caricaturists are out of business, joining the ranks of travel agents and most (but not all) of the people who scan and bag purchases at the drugstore. We have become our own parodies, eliminating waste and redundancy. This kind of efficiency is what has allowed us to thrive at home, and drop jaws abroad. We have killed off satire once and for all. It is dead. Long live reality!”
― Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why