SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
Douglas CouplandLife is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we donโt know why, and if we do find out why, itโs decades later and knowing why doesnโt matter any more.
Douglas CouplandAll families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
Douglas CouplandYou know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful
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