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A child without parents learns to survive: they work out early to mask what they feel and if the pain proves beyond bearing, to dig a cave in their head, and hide inside.
Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for—justice, decency, humanity—and I couldn’t help but think of how many times I had violated our nation’s deepest values in order to protect them.
the world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back.
Without grace, everyone is running from something.”
“The point is—if you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”
To turn your back on everything you know is hard, among the most difficult things you’ll ever do, but I kept telling myself one thing. If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.
“There are so many people on the fucking planet now, that’s all we are—lines of code on a hard drive. Take the lines away and we don’t exist, add to it and we’re really somebody.
my weight was my heart.
