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The Message
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Sometimes, you are blessed with a moment where all the dissembling, all the shame, all the politesse are stripped, and evil speaks with clarity. Sometimes it’s in a park named for a nineteenth-century slave trader. And sometimes it’s in a
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“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“There should be a word for the ability to stop crying about a past pain even though it's still in you. There should be a word for living.
Yes, that's it. There should be a word for continuing to live when a part of you has died. There should be a word that sums that up. And the longer you live, the more that word should become a part of you. Because the thing of it is, every day that the person is missed feels longer and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do to share the long, beautiful days which they are not a part of.”
― People Like Us
Yes, that's it. There should be a word for continuing to live when a part of you has died. There should be a word that sums that up. And the longer you live, the more that word should become a part of you. Because the thing of it is, every day that the person is missed feels longer and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do to share the long, beautiful days which they are not a part of.”
― People Like Us
“Once we allow for the idea that depression is a liar, it makes sense to seek other opinions.”
― Something in the Woods Loves You
― Something in the Woods Loves You
“Can't we just stay here? Now? In this time?"
She's a child again. Years and years away from that gun.
"No," she says. She's sixteen again. Dressed in that dress again. "You can't fix the world," she says. "You can't fix time. People like us, we feel it too much. We want to fix too much. And, sometimes, it just swallows us up."
"People like us?" he says. He is in Minnesota. He is in Bolton. In France, in Italy, in Toronto. He is everywhere he's been and will be.
"Of course. Why else do you think you're writing this?”
― People Like Us
She's a child again. Years and years away from that gun.
"No," she says. She's sixteen again. Dressed in that dress again. "You can't fix the world," she says. "You can't fix time. People like us, we feel it too much. We want to fix too much. And, sometimes, it just swallows us up."
"People like us?" he says. He is in Minnesota. He is in Bolton. In France, in Italy, in Toronto. He is everywhere he's been and will be.
"Of course. Why else do you think you're writing this?”
― People Like Us
“Sometimes, you are blessed with a moment where all the dissembling, all the shame, all the politesse are stripped, and evil speaks with clarity. Sometimes it’s in a park named for a nineteenth-century slave trader. And sometimes it’s in a settlement that honors a twentieth-century advocate of that same system. In either case, the clarity is a gift and we should listen close.”
― The Message
― The Message
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