"If reparative reading is better at the level of ethics and affect--and there is really no doubt that it is--it also looks better at the level of epistemology and knowledge. Even though paranoid or, in terms borrowed from Silvan Tomkins, strong theory can organize vast amounts of territory and tell big truths, it misses the descriptive richness of weak theory. Weak theory stays local, gives up on hypervigilance for attentiveness; instead of powerful reductions, it prefers acts of noticing, being affected, taking joy, and making whole."

--from Heather Love's "Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading"