“Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness.”
“Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.”
“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”
“Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world.”
“The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes.”
“Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.”