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“We are shaped not by what is strong in us but by the anomaly, by whatever is weak and not accepted.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium

“With my feet up on the dashboard, I watched the world fly by through a dirty windshield and learned to surrender to the unpredictability of a life without design, to rely on a road map with no destination, letting it take me wherever it might lead, never knowing what was around the next corner but faithfully relying on the music to keep me alive in the event that everything fell apart and I had to start over.”
― Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

“The hearts of men are alike wherever you go. The rest is scenery.”
― Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

“an anthropologist who wrote about how the first artifact of civilization wasn’t a hammer or arrowhead, but a human femur—discovered in Madagascar—that showed signs of having healed from a bad fracture. In the animal world, a broken leg meant you starved, so a healed femur meant that some human had supported another’s long recovery, fed them, cleaned the wound. And thus, the author argued, began civilization. Augured not by an instrument of murder, but by a fracture bound, a bit of food brought back for another.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!