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We help if we can, when we can, to the extent that we can. As
There’s an immensity of love that bursts from your chest the first time you hear your child cry, every emotion you’ve ever felt is amplified to the point of absurdity, children open floodgates inside us, upward as well as down. You’ve never felt so happy, and never felt so scared.
You can’t love someone like this without worrying about everything, forever.
We fool ourselves that we can protect the people we love, because if we accepted the truth we’d never let them out of our sight.
for him the rape lasted a few minutes but for her it never stopped.
That all girls can be victims and all boys perpetrators.
“If no one knows who you are, you can be whoever you want,”
“Here I can be something that I’ve done, but in Beartown I’m just something that happened to me.” Ana understood that.
Shoot… dig… silence? SDS!”
It wasn’t predators that people in Beartown got rid of, it was problems. Because when Maya came running out of Kevin’s bedroom several years later, it wasn’t the predator that most people wanted to attack, it was her.
They’ve never hated themselves so much that they wanted to kill themselves simply because they went to a party when they were fifteen in a town where afterward everyone wished that they had never existed, because someone who doesn’t exist can’t be raped.
There are predators everywhere, just different sorts.
It’s a terrible moment for all kids when we realize that our parents can’t protect us.
Because integrity is about who you are, whereas prestige is only about what other people think of you.”
Eventually we realize that everything is about us wanting to be wherever they are, as much as possible, for as long as they let us.
People can bury so many of their loved ones during a lifetime and still get up the morning after, but something inside gets a bit heavier each time.
“Show those films to a hundred men with a hundred different political opinions, and every damn one of them will think he’s Luke Skywalker. No bastard ever thinks they’re that Darth Vader.”
Guilt is always stronger than logic.
every victory is merely part of the countdown to the next defeat.
Zackell knows Bobo came here to give his friend a last chance, but instead he actually took it away from him.
Radicalization is when all the sick shit gets normalized, everyone gets a bit more dangerous, one step at a time.
“No one can hurt you when you’re alone.”
Because of course it was only a dog. It’s so hard to explain that it’s more than an animal when you’re that animal’s human. Perhaps it takes more empathy than most people are capable
“It’s never only a dog. It’s family. Everyone
