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How could I not be hung up on the past, I wanted to say to my mother, when so many things I’d loved had been left behind there?
“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
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“If every relationship was a series of advances and retreats, Cyrus was almost never a retreat-er, sharing everything important about himself at a word, a smile, with a shrug as if to say, 'Those're just facts. Why should I be ashamed?”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, 'it's been an honor to serve my country.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Why should the Prophet Muhammad get a whole visit from an archangel? Why should Saul get to see the literal light of heaven on the road to Damascus? Of course it would be easy to establish bedrock faith after such clear-cut revelation. How was it fair to celebrate those guys for faith that wasn't faith at all, that was just obedience to what they plainly observed to be true? And what sense did it make to punish the rest of humanity who had never been privy to such explicit revelation? To make everyone else lurch from crisis to crisis, desperately alone?”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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