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Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us by Josh James Riebock
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“I want love without drama, romance without pain. I want intimacy without vulnerability. I want a guarantee. I want something that doesn’t exist. Maybe we all do. Maybe we’re all chasing unicorns.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“He thinks he’s now gone to a place from which there is no coming back. But I am about to show him that such a place doesn’t exist.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear and confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“I don't understand, but understanding something isn't a prerequisite to feeling it. We don't have to understand things in order to be affected by them.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“Hide your quirks and you’re a Volvo.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“if you don’t know what you want to fill your life with, there’s a good chance you’re going to fill it with everything that you don’t—”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“He says that this world is part heaven and part hell, and that every second, inside of me and out, I’m standing at the convergence of the two, at the corner of damned and divine.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“I don’t understand, but understanding something isn’t a prerequisite to feeling it.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us
“Am I being too hard on him? I suppose it’s possible that I’m simply casting him as the villain so I have someone to blame for my flaws, for all the ills of my life. After all, blame is how we make sense of our lives. Blame fills in the gaps. In the absence of a true villain in our lives, we’re bound to enlist one. Sure, it may not be the best way, or fair, but it does help us explain our stories. Is that what I’m doing with my dad? Maybe.”
Josh James Riebock, Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us