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“Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“He'd always wanted better words for what it felt like to live, and to suffer, and to love it all so recklessly as to hate how it couldn't love you back the same.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Conflict is inevitable, and our allies are not disposable. We need to fess up to mistakes when we make them, and apologize when we’ve hurt someone, but we also need to abandon a culture of resorting to public humiliation, exile, and shunning of anyone who slips up.”
― Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
― Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
“Wake up. It is morning. Have a cup of coffee. Watch the sun come up. Feel as if you are the only person in the whole world seeing it. Know that it was always true that you were the only one seeing the world the way you were seeing the world. Give thanks to the rising sun. Give thanks to the day that was every day, was the sun itself making everything seen and was called the day as a nickname for the big light the sun was sending the world before it took it away.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
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