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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I did not see sin”, says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, “for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“Other children could have borne it, have borne it. My older brother did, somehow. I couldn't.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel