And the worst kinds of prisons, Mia, are the ones we don’t know we’re in until we’ve escaped. Because we often don’t escape at all.
“There’s this tendency for people to see any fight against the system as a fight for progress. As if the people before them couldn’t possibly have gotten anything right. If you’re using bombs instead of words, that means you’re banking on people giving you what you want out of fear instead of reason. That’s never a good sign.”
― Only Human
― Only Human
“Loved people love people. Forgiven people forgive people. Adored people adore people. Freed people free people. But when we are still locked in our own prisons, it is impossible to crave the liberation of others. Misery prefers company.”
― Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
― Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after awhile, a long while, it will be true... You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“You're too worried about figuring out what you can believe about all of this, and then figuring out how to control it. That's how most people approach their lives. Way I feel, though, after a lot of years of living? Not much of what matters in the world is under your control. You don't dictate, you adapt. That's all. So stop trying to control this, and start trying to listen to what it's telling you.”
― So Cold the River
― So Cold the River
“You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch.”
― Waking Gods
― Waking Gods
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