Xing

“He was a wraith of the factories, skinny and tall, with a wobbling gait that broadcast his deformed legs.”
― Kirby Crow, Hammer and Bone

“And maybe that’s all love ever was—just something you hung over loneliness, like a photograph put up just to cover a square of faded paint on a wall.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“The monsters are real, but they aren’t here now. You’re safe.”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Widdershins

“We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day