2 Quotes by Dana Cann

For adults, summer was different – flatter, the way everything became flatter when you grew old, like the hills you once sledded and stood on your pedals to climb, like the Christmases and birthdays you once anticipated, even after you discovered they disappointed, again and again, until you became numb to their disappointment.

Collective burden, defined as the aggregate internalized guilt and complicity of a group of people, is the wellspring from which spirits arise.