

“So she’s experienced all too well how love believes and trusts in everything. But can love also forgive everything? Can you be forgiven for sins you’re unable to regret? If you know with your entire being that you would do it all over again? That if you were to permit yourself a single sin here in this life, this is the sin you would choose?
Can she ever hope for forgiveness? Will she ever be able to forgive herself?”
― Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
Can she ever hope for forgiveness? Will she ever be able to forgive herself?”
― Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
“If we want change, or good fortune, or solace, we have to create it for ourselves.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Still. Something is missing. Something is off. So, how fucking spoiled am I, then? How fucking broken? What is wrong with me that I can have everything I could ever want and have ever asked for and still wake up in the morning feeling like every day is a slog?”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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