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1 " Humanity's greatest strength - and also the reason for its ultimate downfall - is its ability to normalize even the bizarre. "
― , Frankly in Love
2 " Okay is my prayer. "
3 " My god, Los Angeles was an ugly city. But my god, Los Angeles was still cool as hell. "
― , Super Fake Love Song
4 " Pop is not music. Pop is celebrity. Fabricated personas that are all style, no substance. Pop is a celebration of fakeness. Artifice is the only cultural currency left, now that the internet has erased all contextual borders. "
5 " People can code switch to confuse others, express dominance or submission, or disguise themselves. "
6 " If you have the will to do something, and you keep at it, and you don't give up, you can do anything. And there's no greater will than the will to love who you want. "
7 " Nothing is just any one single thing. In fact, what starts out as one thing can turn out to be something completely different. "
8 " Kitsch is not seeing something for what it is, but what you think it should be. "
9 " White people can describe themselves with just American. Only when pressed do they go into their ethnic heritage. Doesn't seem fair that I have to forever explain my origin story with that silent hyphen, whereas white people don't. It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated. "
10 " People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people. "
11 " Laughter is the music of the deep cosmos connecting all human beings that says all the things mere words cannot. "
12 " love is a belief mutually held. As soon as that belief fades on either end, then poof, the whole thing falls face-flat like a tug-of-war suddenly gone one-sided. "
13 " If wall of oobleck block your way,don't punch and slap and kick all day,Just hold your breath and close your eyesand simply ease yourself inside.Walk slowly through the dark, don't fear,For someday you'll be far from here. "
14 " Because love is more terrifying than anything. Love is a mighty blue hand coming straight for you out of the sky. All you can do is surrender yourself and pray you don’t fall to your death. "
15 " You can run across a big trough of oobleck, if for some reason you (a) have a big enough trough lying around and (b) enough oobleck to fill it. "
16 " Flies are the only creature named after their main mode of mobility. "
17 " Nerds,' says Joy.We look at her like, So? "
18 " He nods with this wistful sort of look that says, I learned something new today.People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people. . . . As soon as I say these words, I realize I've discovered the point. The point is not about playing Food Tour Guide. It's not about peppering Paul Olmo with questions. The point is being able to say I have no idea. Without apology. With confidence, even. . . . I have no idea, I realize, is a big part of who I am. "
19 " I can’t understand why anyone would drink water that has had hops and twigs and shit rooting in it for weeks. "
20 " As a member of the majority, she belongs everywhere. As the product of a long, mixed-up heritage, she belongs nowhere. "