“How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.”
― The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
― The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”
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“This time, there are no tears. This time, there is only emptiness and I feel it set in the straight line of my mouth. I am not strong enough for this. I want an earthquake, a hurricane, anything - even a devil, the one with the cloven hoof - Mrs. Leed's unfortunate 13th child - to rush out and stomp on me, break me into little pieces and hurl me to the stars, let me go back with those people I love. Please.”
― Cranberry Queen
― Cranberry Queen
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