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there are actual people who don’t like them. Just because of what they look like and where they come from.
“There’s comfort in familiarity,” he says. “Familiarity of language—can you imagine suddenly not being able to understand what people are saying around you? I remember very strongly how that felt. And familiarity of culture—it would be hard to live with different holidays and customs than you’ve grown up with. And yes, familiarity of looks. It might be a human weakness, but it’s no coincidence that most people feel
most comfortable around people that look like them.”
“When we love someone, what we can and can’t do becomes irrelevant. We no longer think in those terms. Would we stop trying to find water in the desert if a loved one was dying of thirst? No. When
we love someone, we no longer have a choice. Can or can’t doesn’t even play into it.”
“We control the way we live our lives. The things we think about and work toward on a daily basis. The amount of joy we spread among other people just as lost and struggling and sometimes as hopeless as we are.”
