Community Quote by John Darnielle

“I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.”

John Darnielle

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“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t mean a child forgets the time she shared in the backyard with her mother gardening, or the fun they had together watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Astro. It just means she learns to bear it. The mechanism…

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