i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

– Read About Palestine –

"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

When people ask if I'd change anything about a book I've already written, I want to explain to them that I'm not the person who wrote that book any longer, and even if I tried right now I'd write a different one. Everything you make as a writer* is a combination of what you want to say and who you are at the time you are telling that story.

average lib rly thinks if hamas pinky-promised to stop then palestine would be free but refuses to confront that palestinian dispossession and death has never stopped for a single minute since 1948 and that israeli soldiers and policies do not discriminate between Good palestinians and Peace loving palestinians and Mean palestinians and Babies and Militants

The world wants us to forget that they are people.

This is the paramedic who found his family among the dead victims. I thought it was only his mother who got killed, but I was mistaken. But his sister seems to have survived only.

I can't believe I only just noticed that Henry's last name is Winter, and the concept of winter is a repeated fucking theme in The Secret History?!?! Like I've read this book so many times y'all

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”