Finn
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“When instinct tells you to pay attention and choose tenderness, do it. Community is humanity's greatest strength and community at its core is just love: work motivated by that love, comforts created out of love, bonds fed by love or at least for the desire of it.
Being young is so frightening because it feels like you don't have the power to enact dynamic change. In cases like this, in stories like this, where what is happening is so inexplicable and out of control that all you can do is try to give the strong person in your life the pleasure of your time or the snack from your lunch tray or a hug in the morning or the warmth and privacy of your car during their lunch hour…
If it is all you can give, it is enough. It has meaning. It is helping.
I love you for trying and please, please, please, don't let time steal this part of you.”
― Icarus
Being young is so frightening because it feels like you don't have the power to enact dynamic change. In cases like this, in stories like this, where what is happening is so inexplicable and out of control that all you can do is try to give the strong person in your life the pleasure of your time or the snack from your lunch tray or a hug in the morning or the warmth and privacy of your car during their lunch hour…
If it is all you can give, it is enough. It has meaning. It is helping.
I love you for trying and please, please, please, don't let time steal this part of you.”
― Icarus
“Eventually, everyone winds up in the same place. You do the work because it needs to be done. And it is satisfying to have it done for a little while.”
― Nettle & Bone
― Nettle & Bone
“…Relationships were as much a part of people as water was a part of blood. Without water, blood was just a red dust.”
― The Library Trilogy
― The Library Trilogy
“And then, Tress took the singular step that separated her from people in most stories. The act, it might be said, that defined her as a hero. She did something so incredible, I can barely express its majesty.
'I should consider this more,' Tress thought to herself, 'and not jump to conclusions.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
'I should consider this more,' Tress thought to herself, 'and not jump to conclusions.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“There are so many books written about the weak learning to be strong and not many about the strong opening themselves up to weakness and vulnerability.”
― Icarus
― Icarus
Potential Central Book Club
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The book club for Discord server Potential Central. We read one nonfiction book every month.
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