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“i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

“you do not need to build a grand and glorious temple to love. your body is the temple to love.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

“i want to dream of a world where instead of building prisons, we build healing temples. i want to sing the stories that tell not of the cleansing power of blood, but the transformative power of tears. somewhere out in the vast universe, there must be a place where the exiled gather in humility and honesty to tend to the wounds in our souls and the wounds in the world. a place beyond punishment or even redemption. a place where all things can be seen and held for what they are. and in this life or the next, someday i’ll meet you there.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

“our world keeps breaking, over and over again. i have no choice but to believe that a new one is being born.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls