Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

Two sisters - one flighty, one responsible - find themselves tangled in a mysterious cult-like community when the flighty one disappears.

When reenacting Iron Age living gets a bit too realistic…

Women can be heroes, too.

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The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, SO DO WHAT YOU WANT.

… many folk obey ancient laws of hospitality and cannot simply come charging into one’s home to murder guests.”

Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.

People don’t need wild gods any more when they’re fat and rich and comfortable. Gods don’t take kindly to being forgotten.

It’s a story about the toxic brew of confirmation bias, fuzzy math, and hubris. It’s a story about what people will do when they are allowed to spend other people’s money with minimal oversight.

The magic is not in the analyzing or the understanding. The magic lives in the wonder of what we do not know.

Whether wicked or well-intentioned, language is a way to get members of a community on the same ideological page. To help them feel like they belong to something big

What a ride and we’re not done yet!

The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.

Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.

We must learn to invite the winter in. We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.

There were no clicks or eyeballs in the sensible, reasoned middle ground, and all the money in the world in encouraging users to rush to treat the extremes as if they were the center.

As we have said from the beginning, we think people are built to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain. In reality, we are actually built to overcome our own pleasure and increase our own pain in the service of following society’s norms.

Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.