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The adjutant, Twenty Cicada, made an entirely remarkable noise, like he’d drowned a laugh and swallowed its corpse.

Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

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Easter is a frightening prospect. For the women, the only thing more terrifying than a world with Jesus dead was one in which he was alive. ... The women did not go to the tomb looking for hope. They were searching for a place to grieve. They wanted to be left alone in despair. The terrifying prospect of Easter is that God called these women to return to the same world that crucified Jesus with a very dangerous gift: hope in the power of God, the unending reservoir of forgiveness and an abundance of love.

Esau McCaulley

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I find an abundance of caution the most grating term in our 2020 lexicon: It’s a phrase rooted in the good of bounty and its possibilities, and is now used to refer to the violent scales of economy of those affected by the pandemic. Behind “abundance” is the posture of those who can wield the word in its power: I have resources. I have options. I can afford to wait or act when it’s convenient for me.

Nina Yun for Eater

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“Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. I was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right. And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.”

— The Priest, Fleabag Season 2, Episode 6.

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There’s a Korean word jung that’s translated as “feeling,” “heart,” or “sentiment.” It has no English equivalent. The Chinese character has two parts: one that means heart, and the other that means the color blue or green, colors that have no distinction in Korean. It’s the color of youth. It’s the feeling you have when you meet someone for the first time, but remember them, as though from a past life, and it’s the thing that bunches up in your throat, day by day, so that when it disappears, it takes something of yourself. It’s the thing that makes you hold on when you should let go. Koreans often say that love is tragic, but jung is lethal.

E. Alex Jung for Buzzfeed

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Akihito Takuma, Lines of Flight, op.549, oil on canvas, 100cm x 72.7cm, 2017

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Human progress isn’t measured by industry. It’s measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege.

The Doctor, Doctor Who (2005) S10E03

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If you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time . ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda, in conversation with Terry Gross on Fresh Air

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That's generating meaning: doing what you want to do so they can't take anything away from you.

Constace Wu for Vulture

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Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center by bell hooks

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One of the first rules I remember having drilled into my head was “respect your elders.” While this exists in all pockets of society, it’s especially true for minority groups, because in addition to seniority, there’s the reality that people paved the way so you could have a better life. There are doors open to you that would be closed had your elders not lived, fought, struggled, and succeeded. For that, they deserve all the respect, all the time.

Rembert Browne for New York

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There's this kind of irresolvable trap that occurs when you're too young to have any power but old enough to know that you want some. It's the trap of being too inarticulate to have the clarity people expect you to speak with when you speak of the depressing black hole of systematic racism.

Jenny Zhang