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“Grace to live at all—none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“there was a word for this: sonder. “The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Incredible, how naming something took nothing away from its stagger. Language could be totally impotent like that.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“When I say “nations,” I mean “armed marketplaces.” Always.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“It feels so American to discount dreams because they’re not built of objects, of things you can hold and catalogue and then put in a safe. Dreams give us voices, visions, ideas, mortal terrors, and departed beloveds. Nothing counts more to an individual, or less to an empire.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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