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“When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.”
“Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Am I right?”
Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it.
So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibilities, to be bound by the rules of that group.
To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.
Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
