“It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.”
― The Leavers
― The Leavers
“...if you come across someone sad and you do not try to make them smile, then you have disgraced your own humanity.”
― Haunting the Deep
― Haunting the Deep
“I am a millennial. Generation Y; born between the birth of AIDS and 9/11, give or take. They call us the global generation. We are known for our entitlement and narcissism. Some say it’s because we’re the first generation where every kid gets a trophy just for showing up. Others think it’s because social media allows us to post when we fart or have a sandwich for all the world to see. But it seems our one defining trait is a numbness to the world. An indifference to suffering.”
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“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable houses may never know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark
― Learning to Walk in the Dark
“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.”
― Night Film
― Night Film
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