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They were always meant for this life. But not because they were born to fight. Because they felt wonder where others knew fear.
“This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this.
They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.
All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories... distorted to fit into their narrative... until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.”
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They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.
All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories... distorted to fit into their narrative... until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.”
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“it’s not the literal consequences of failure that scare us; it’s the idea that we could fail at something we desire greatly.”
― How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
― How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
“Oh, Cerridwen! I dread the day for you when a stranger lands and all your grace and all your wisdom fill him only with respect for such a gallant dowager!”
― Queen of a Lonely Country
― Queen of a Lonely Country
“Oh, Cerridwen! I dread the day for you when a stranger lands and all your grace and all your wisdom fill him only with respect for such a gallant dowager.”
― Queen of a Lonely Country
― Queen of a Lonely Country
“If I can push out my inhibitions, I will have access to intuitions,”
― Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
― Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
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