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“We haunt the past to refuse to let it lie comfortably as it was.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.”
― Cinnamon and Gunpowder
― Cinnamon and Gunpowder
“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.”
― Operation Shylock: A Confession
― Operation Shylock: A Confession
“Caring meant being courageous enough to be fully present with one another. One did not have to be useful or whole or even remotely healed as long as they were present, willing to bear themselves - their full, vulnerable selves - to others and allow their history of hurt to be transformed into a wellspring of healing.”
― Sweep of Stars
― Sweep of Stars
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