Sameer Vasta

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“This is how emotions work, right? They get tangled and complicated? They take on their own life? Trying to control them is like trying to control a wild animal: no matter how much you think you’ve taught them, they’re willful. They have minds of their own. That’s the beauty of wildness.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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“The inhabitant gives the room its purpose. Your actions are mightier than any architect's intentions.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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“I've missed you," he says.

I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: carmen-maria-machado, identity, in-the-dream-house, loss-of-self, missed-you, missing

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“Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

tags: goodness, humanity, inspirational, philosophy, virtue, wonder

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“Nonstalgia (noun) The unsettling sensation that you are never be able to fully access the past; that once you are departed from an event, some essential quality of it is lost forever. A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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