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“When people believe in something, believe in it so much that it informs their life and death, it may as well exist because it's changing the physical world. At that point, it doesn't matter whether God is real or not. The belief, and the action that follows belief, makes the story true and alters the world to match.”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“the wends n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“What happens when the walls we raise outlive the dangers they were built to keep out? At what point does a fort become a cage?”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“etherness n. the wistful feeling of looking around at a gathering of loved ones, all too aware that even though the room is filled with warmth and laughter now, it won't always be this way-that the coming years will steadily break people away into their own families, or see them pass away one by one, until there comes a time you look back and try to imagine what it feels like to have everyone together in the same place.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows