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Kai Moore-Austen
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The Outrage
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My dad once told me that they came for the libraries first. “Not smashing and burning, not in the beginning,” he said, “but claiming no one used them and closing them down, one by one. You see, Gabe, when they take away the places that help
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“People can only be as good as they are, no matter how much they love you.”
― Inside Out
― Inside Out
“whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing. This is not to say you aren’t special. This is to say thank god you aren’t special.”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days
“I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive.”
― The Future
― The Future
“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
“We all suffer, and we all triumph, and we all get to choose how we hold both.”
― Inside Out
― Inside Out
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