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Sean Lynch
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“Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Despite it all, that's still my instinct, she thought, listening to Painter eat. I know I've been lied to. Yet my training holds. It's a depressing fact. Abuse is a more effective form of captivity than a cell will ever be.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Trauma doesn’t decrease with company, but it does grow easier to work through when you know someone else understands.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“We want to imagine that people are consistent, steady, stable. We define who they are, create descriptions to lock them on a page, divide them up by their likes, talents, beliefs. Then we pretend some—perhaps most—are better than we are, because they stick to their definitions, while we never quite fit ours. Truth is, people are as fluid as time is. We adapt to our situation like water in a strangely shaped jug, though it might take us a little while to ooze into all the little nooks. Because we adapt, we sometimes don’t recognize how twisted, uncomfortable, or downright wrong the container is that we’ve been told to inhabit.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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