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a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into the pouch of some benevolent kangaroo who would take me bounding, protected, through life.
“Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.”
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
“Everyone simply had to wait patiently in order to lose the people they loved one by one, all the while acting as if they weren't waiting for that at all.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“Revolutionary liberation must be a self-liberation that reaches social dimensions, not "mass liberation" or "class liberation" behind which lurks the rule of an elite, a hierarchy and a state.”
― Post-Scarcity Anarchism
― Post-Scarcity Anarchism
“I’m beginning to think I feel too much. The feelings flood into me like so much water, and I am helpless against the onslaught.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of "losing it". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has no bottom to it and I will just keep falling under and under and under.”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
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