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I’m realizing that I don’t actually know how to talk to non nerds. Like you don’t read or write fan fiction? You don’t care that they cancelled that one show just when it was getting good?? You didn’t feel like your heart was being ripped out of your chest and smashed into a million pieces when that one character died??? It doesn’t bother you that that those two characters never got together EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE CLEARLY IN LOVE?!?!?!?

But that’s cool. So um weather exists. How are the sports?

"A verdade é sempre insulto ou uma piada. Mentiras são geralmente mais saborosas. Nós as amamos. A natureza delas é agradar. A verdade não tem consideração pelo conforto de ninguém."

Geek Love - O fabuloso circo Binewski, Katherine Dunn

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort.

Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

You must have wished a million times to be normal.” “No.” “No?” “I’ve wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I’ve wished for a fish’s tail instead of legs. I’ve wished to be more special.” “Not normal?” “Never.

Katherine Dunn (Geek Love)

Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull.

Katherine Dunn, Geek Love