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“I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“know that when I die somebody’s going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That’s why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death.” She takes a quick drag and says, “Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“There's the potentiality for other choices to be made in how we relate to discomfort. When there is space around the difficulty, we have agency.”
― Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
― Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Cadáver exquisito
― Cadáver exquisito
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