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Aaron Hartzler
“Sometimes I get the feeling [my parents have] asked me to hold this big invisible secret for them, like a backpack full of rocks--all these things they don't want to know about themselves. I'm supposed to wear it as I hike up this trail toward my adulthood. They're already at the summit of Full Grown Mountain. They're waiting for me to get there and cheering me on, telling me I can do it, and sometimes scolding and asking why I'm not hiking any faster or why I'm not having more fun along the way. I know I'm not supposed to talk about this backpack full of their crazy, but sometimes I really wish we could all stop for a second. Maybe they could walk down the trail from the top and meet me. We could unzip that backpack, pull out all of those rocks, and leave the ones we no longer need by the side of the trail. It'd make the walk a lot easier. Maybe then my shoulders wouldn't get so tense when Dad lectures me about money or Mom starts a new diet she saw on the cover of a magazine at the grocery store.”
Aaron Hartzler, What We Saw

Jessie Ann Foley
“Everything that ever happens to you only happens once, so you better never stop paying attention.”
Jessie Ann Foley, The Carnival at Bray

Libba Bray
“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”
Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

Tim Kreider
“if you want to enjoy the rewards of being loved, you also have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
Tim Kreider, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
Ira Glass

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