Xing

“That is a rare gift, Alexyin, for another person to see every ugliness in you and still be able to find that part of you that they can love, that can love them back.”
― Kirby Crow, The King of Forever

“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

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

“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