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“You've become so damaged that when someone tries to give you what you deserve, you have no fucking idea how to respond.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Do flat-earthers believe that other planets are also flat?”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“if you could just get people to talk, he believed, the most bitter antagonists could discover common ground.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland