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“I’ll do anything!” Prince Ambrose declared. Privately, the witch thought about how tedious altruism is, but publicly, she informed the prince of the cost:
“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that’s really not the point. The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention, in the midst of an almost constant, if subtle, caretaking. Holding open doors. Offering elbows at crosswalks. Letting someone else go first. Helping with the heavy bags. Reaching what’s too high, or what’s been dropped. Pulling someone back to their feet. Stopping at the car wreck, at the struck dog. The alternating merge, also known as the zipper. This caretaking is our default mode and it’s always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. Always.”
― The Book of Delights: Essays
― The Book of Delights: Essays
“never feel guilty for starting again”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“we have been dying
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view
- live fully”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view
- live fully”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“It didn’t take me long to learn that the discipline or practice of writing these essays occasioned a kind of delight radar. Or maybe it was more like the development of a delight muscle. Something that implies that the more you study delight, the more delight there is to study.”
― The Book of Delights: Essays
― The Book of Delights: Essays
“when death
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
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Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, urban-planning, urban-design, public-transport, adhd, anthologies, anthropology, asexual, astrology, asian-american, asia, bisexual, buddhism, trains, butch-femme, lesbian, lgbt, intersex, sexuality, queer, queer-lit, gay, gay-fiction, transgender, agender, queer-studies, gender, cultural, japan, cities, urbanism, urban-studies, social-issues, mental-health, mental-illness, books-about-books, essays, lgbt-memoir, linguistics, sociology, communication, cozy-romance, cozy-fiction, cozy, disability-studies, esoterica, taoism, islam, muslims, dungeons-and-dragons, eastern-philosophy, ecclesiology, ethnic-studies, enemies-to-lovers, food-writing, found-family, gender-identity, middle-east, monster-romance, novel-in-verse, psychoanalysis, slow-burn-romance, slice-of-life, solarpunk, tarot, tea, turkish, wholesome, india, and asian-literature
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