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Since I didn’t believe I was beautiful, I wanted to hide. But when you’re a kid, there’s no hiding. You have to go where they tell you to go, looking how you look, wearing what you’re wearing.
“Why doesn’t their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I’m not. I’m something else and I don’t know what.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“I wondered if I was just doing this as some kind of ego trip. Then I decided I didn’t care. Not enough is made of the fact that being of service makes you feel good. I think nonprofits should guarantee that giving your time and money makes your skin better and your ass smaller. Why not? There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“The only thing that was every wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us. We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives.”
― Logical Family: A Memoir
― Logical Family: A Memoir
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