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A daily practice may sound like too much regimentation. In fact, it is the path to freedom. “Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“If part of that heart was always out of reach, that seemed entirely fair to Ian. You did not get a whole heart when you pinned yours to a splendid, battered, high-flying hawk like a nightwhich. Nina’s soul would always, in some deep place, yearn to be flying under a bomber’s moon with her dark-eyed Moscow rose. 99%”
― The Huntress
― The Huntress
“But for all their fuss about give me your huddled masses, Yanks don’t really like refugees,”
― The Huntress
― The Huntress
“The number of border deaths, just like the number of drug war homicides....does little to account for all the ways that violence rips and ripples through a society, through the lives and minds of its inhabitants.”
― The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
― The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
“She’s at least one thing that’s right, going forward. Building a generation is like building a wall - one good, well-made brick at a time, one good, well-made child at a time. Enough good bricks, you have a good wall. Enough good children, you have a generation that won’t start a world enveloping war.” (79%)”
― The Huntress
― The Huntress
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