The void is my friend.
While effecting real change in our own lives as individuals and in groups is always hard, as human beings there is also often a tendency to believe this is even harder than it is (perhaps even impossible, we tell ourselves). And through that belief, we can make change harder than it already is.
page 21, True Reconciliation by Jody Wilson-Raybould
It’s easy to convince people that you are really okay if they don’t have to actually hear what rattles you in the private silence of your own making.
Fall Out Boy Forever, Hanif Abdurraqib
With every step she took, the years melted away. Shane was hurtling backward into his teenage self, before the books, the success, the travel. Back in the dark ages, when his loneliness was like quicksand, when he’d ruin himself to make it stop–and the only bright spot in all of this was loving a beautiful girl with demons ferocious enough to slay his own.
For seven days, a million Junes ago.
Chapter 9: A Verbal Blush, Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my souls desirous to be at the origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.
page 89, Chapter 5, Black Skin, White Masks
