I wouldn’t call myself an optimist, but if your message is just “life sucks and then you die (or worse, keep living),” then I’m out. I don’t need shiny happy bunnies hopping in endless fields to amuse me — but I do need something richer than a steady, bleak despair as a daily reading diet.

DeAnna Knippling (contemp.) American writer

“How Dark Is Too Dark? A Personal Observation” (4 Sep 2013)
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