Too Soon

by Betty Shamieh

It takes both extraordinary compassion and bravery to care about people who are unlike yourself.

Give rage a home in your body and lend it your voice, and it wears itself out. Otherwise, it turns into resentment, a ghost of itself, and you can never kill a ghost.

The terrifying part of entering a new world is not that you will suffer. It’s that you’ll suffer in a set of ways you can’t anticipate.