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“Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.”

“Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public’s sense of truth.”

Post-truth is pre-fascism.

“ Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the 20th century.”

He’s starting to really lose me theologically

“If you focus on only the evils of our day, you’ll become pessimistic and cynical; but, if you ask God what field He wants you to work in and faithfully serve Him, you’ll experience His grace, love, and joy.”

“Justice keeps chaos at bay.”
“But part of justice is also mercy.”
“Mercy.”
“We need mercy. Civilization needs mercy. Mercy can keep chaos at bay, too.”

I have anxiety

Come on auntie

I have to take this back to the library but I’m on page 255 chapter 30 a reckoning with wreckage

Hot

“They feel the tug of the leash and think it’s the call of freedom.”

Carlotta bestie 😩

“It ain’t illegal to get out of prison. I mean damn, that’s one of the most not illegal things going y’all to not be in no prison no more.”

“If it would help you and if it were possible I would go down with you into Hell: but you cannot bring Hell into me.”

“When your own heart’s been broken it will be time for you to think of talking. But someone must say in general what’s been unsaid among you this many a year: that love, as mortals understand the word, isn’t enough. Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”

“He also loves. He also has suffered. He also has waited a long time.”

“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.”

“Shame is like that. If you will accept it - if you will drink the cup to the bottom - you will find it very nourishing: but try to do anything else with it and it scalds.”

“Free, as a man is free to drink while he is drinking. He is not free still to be dry.”

I’m stressed

“The human grief instinct is an embarrassing one. Frail and ignored until it is very part of you.”

“He told me I didn’t need to say sorry because it wasn’t my fault. I could never understand why people needed to clarify that. That I’m sorry is not an apology from me to you but an apology for being. I’m sorry that life is this difficult. I’m sorry that there’s so much harm to be found. I would give anything to change the nature of the world, even if I could change it just for you.”

“For a while, I assumed the species was depressive. But then I realized depressives attract each other, that we can’t help it, that there’s some blue magnetism that pulls us.”

“He just kept hollering at a city where no one cared to murmur back.”

Carlotta girl 😂😭

GIRL

“It felt earned - like maybe you had to get hurt by someone before you learned how to love them.”

“It’s good to leave a place before you get sick of it, you know? It’s good to miss things.”

“I know now that there are tiers of humiliation when you Re beginning to fall in love with someone. The lowest, the most forgiving, is someone saying the timing is wrong. Above that is being told that you are, have been, always will be, a friend. And then at the top are the words that make me want to turn into a soft, viscous lump that is mine could then hose into a sewer grate - You’ve always been like a brother