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Kai Moore-Austen
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“I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive.”
― The Future
― The Future
“We all suffer, and we all triumph, and we all get to choose how we hold both.”
― Inside Out
― Inside Out

“I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do. When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”
― The Future
― The Future

“So now we're here and we are not dead, and Mom, what's more punk rock than living despite all that which has tried to make you not?”
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“You no longer think of suicide as a house you will build one day.”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days

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