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What trauma is really about, she said, is the sense of helplessness we feel when we’re assailed by unpredictable forces beyond our control.
“It keeps going," I say. "And also, it will end." "And also?" says the rose. That's just it. What's so frightening about existing. It keeps going and also it will end. If I could define my terror of life, dying, loving, and all of it. If I could say "This is what it is", I'd say "It keeps going. It keeps going and also it will end." "And also?" says the rose. "And also," I say slowly. "It keeps going?”
― Death Valley
― Death Valley
“...infrastructural systems shape the relationships we have with people who will be in these places in the future and the relationships they might have with each other.”
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
“Whenever I try to emotionally connect with my mother, she acts like I’m crazy to think she has feelings to express. It makes me self-conscious of my own sensitivity, like anything resembling a feeling is dramatic, frivolous, unnecessary.”
― Death Valley
― Death Valley
“You're going to die one day. Then what do I do? In a way, it's like you're already gone. I have to prepare."
"If that's the case, why love anyone? Everyone is going to die at some point."
"Exactly! It's like two ghosts trying to cuddle each other. Dust cuddling dust.”
― Death Valley
"If that's the case, why love anyone? Everyone is going to die at some point."
"Exactly! It's like two ghosts trying to cuddle each other. Dust cuddling dust.”
― Death Valley
“Stability of all sorts, including political and economic, makes it feasible to frontload large investments of resources with the expectation of continuing benefits over a long period of time. What we think of as the primary characteristic of infrastructure - that it just works, and works invisibly to support other activities - is made possible by stability. A habitable planet with a stable climate is the infrastructure to our human-made infrastructure.”
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
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