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Her heart ached looking at him.
How could two kids from the same parents be so different?
You can’t squeeze the whole world into that rectangle in your hand,
certain places on the planet don’t want you. The depths of the ocean will crush you. The tops of mountains will steal the oxygen from your blood, make you so ill that you’ll wish for death.
Might didn’t make right. Money did.
The truth was that no one stopped the worst things from happening.
the past won’t be rewritten, no matter how hard we wish it.”
People could be sick, haunted, evil, their deeds creating a terrible legacy. But, if anything, places were just impervious, indifferent.
Wildness was underrated.
That was what people knew best: failure, disappointment.
The day when everything is as good as it’s ever going to be.
Uncanny valley. When something was close but not quite close enough to the truth as to become almost frightening, just shy of being human or natural as to become unhuman, unnatural.
These days we never know, do we? What’s true and what isn’t?
Humankind destroys itself with brilliant creativity, but everything comes from mother earth, even technology. There’s nothing more brutally organic than the human mind and all its diabolical inventions.
staring at his phone, or lost in thought, like whatever was going on elsewhere was just slightly more important than what was going on right in front of him.
He was villain, mystery, and heartbreak wrapped all into one.
“We’re worthy of life and love because of who we are, not because of what we do. You’re enough,
a lot of us, women especially, go through life pleasing people.
“We can’t escape the truth of ourselves?”
It can be terrifying to face the consequences of our actions and choices. But it’s no easier to spend your life running.”
When she needed him, he came in for the rescue, guns blazing.
