Shannon Williams

“At ten years old he realized that people were born whole, and that the bad things peeled layers from the person you once were, thinning compassion and empathy and the ability to construct a future. At thirteen he knew those layers could sometimes be rebuilt when people loved you. When you loved.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“We look at others with fucking trivial problems, and we think how long they’d last with a taste of our childhoods.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark