Frankly in Love

People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people.

Humanity's greatest strength - and also the reason for its ultimate downfall - is its ability to normalize even the bizarre.

Laughter is the music of the deep cosmos connecting all human beings that says all the things mere words cannot.

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.

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.

If wall of oobleck block your way, don't punch and slap and kick all day, Just hold your breath and close your eyes and simply ease yourself inside. Walk slowly through the dark, don't fear, For someday you'll be far from here.

Nothing is just any one single thing. In fact, what starts out as one thing can turn out to be something completely different.

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.

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.

People can code switch to confuse others, express dominance or submission, or disguise themselves.

Nerds,' says Joy. We look at her like, So?

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.

Oh, Frank. Just listen to me and don't laugh. I got all dressed up today. I was so nervous. I was scared out of my mind. Because all I could think was, what if I got all dressed up, and what if it was all just for you, and it turned out you didn't love me back?

We're all sober kids, all in the same Advanced Placement (AP) classes, and therefore do not get invited to parties and their concomitant opportunities to imbibe. We wouldn't drink even if we did. We are APs, or Apeys for short. We do not go to "keggers" or "ragers." Instead of parties, we find empty parking structures and host midnight table reads of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." We pile into my car, a teenaged front-wheel drive Consta with manual windows, and drive halfway to Las Vegas just to see a meteor shower and get a good look at Orion's scabbard in the flawless black desert sky. To be clear, we never actually continue on to Vegas. Whatever happens in Vegas, whatevers in Vegas, who cares. We turn the car around and head home and wonder about life outside Earth, and whether we'll ever encounter aliens or they're just ignoring us because we're so embarrassingly primitive, or if the Fermi paradox is true and we really are the only intelligent beings in the entire universe.

Flies are the only creature named after their main mode of mobility.

Kitsch is not seeing something for what it is, but what you think it should be.

Everyone has loveliness inside if you look carefully. Lots of the world is like this.

The Sept of Man inscribes the Septs of Wo-Man and Child in a tri-planar Möbius tetramid resting upon the Present plane. The fourth plane is Fear, the fifth plane is Hope, the sixth plane is Absolute Solitude. The seventh plane encompasses all planes and is therefor Known as the Infinite Realm of the Vaginal Ouroboros.

Love is a belief mutually held.

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.

It’s basically this horrible corporate surveillance machine that cracks our non-stop soul-crushing envy as a side bonus.

I can’t understand why anyone would drink water that has had hops and twigs and shit rooting in it for weeks.

If walls of oobleck block your way, don’t punch and slap and kick all day. Just hold your breath and close your eyes and simply ease yourself inside. Walk slowly through the dark, don’t fear For someday you’ll be far from here.

Humanity’s greatest strength—and also the reason for its ultimate downfall—is its ability to normalize even the bizarre.

I have no idea, I realize, is a big part of who I am.

card.” Q lifts his arms to make air quotes each time, but with just his middle fingers facing out. He calls them his fuck-off quotes.