Often when you don’t want to be your mother or father, there’s something you’re trying to escape you can’t otherwise name.— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee) June 14, 2023

recurringly sad thing to encounter is the kind of person who cringes at the exact thing that would solve their problems if they simply accepted it. but of course there's typically a good reason why they're cringing at it, so there's a secondary thing they have to address first— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) June 13, 2023