I don’t believe faith or fear lifts people to a better life. The cause and effect I believe in are education and opportunity. Those actions and goals elicit positive change. A god monitoring my days seems naive at best and dangerous at
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“Sympathy and empathy are temporary; in the end, you have to fight your battles alone.”
― In Truth's Embrace: Every mystery has a tale
― In Truth's Embrace: Every mystery has a tale
“the older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
“You know who apologizes? People who need to, for their own sake. People who are trying to do themselves a favor.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Therein, she thought, lies the unbearable solitude of a lie: you’re alone when you tell it, alone when you live it, alone when you try to dismantle it.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Skip would then collect the nickel and carry the book on his bicycle over to the next house, where he would leave it in the mailbox and put the flag up. At the drugstore, the four men shared their reactions and thoughts.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
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