“How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tells us how we matter. Don't we love a cashed check, a passport, the touch of a president's hand, though each pleasure rests on a cruelty just beyond our sight? The finger points, without equivocating, at us, and we wonder at being chosen.”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“Because abstraction can never convey fact in a precise way. It can't be made to convey anything precisely.”
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
“Openness and sincerity were prized above all else under a governing practice of radical tolerance, in which speaking about anything at all could yield only benefit and in which secrets could develop only into shameful wounds.”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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