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HESSE’S TALE HAS always moved me in a preternatural way. It strikes me as a deeply illuminating statement about giving and receiving help, about honesty and duplicity, and about the relationship between healer and patient. The two men
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“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.”
― What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
― What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
“You are always asking me why the people don’t do something, why they put up with this brutality, why they don’t rise up against it, this and that. Okay. You’re exhausted, you’re shocked, you’re sick to your stomach, and you feel dirty. These things are what people feel every day here—and you expect them to get themselves organized? You expect them to fight back? Could you fight back at this moment?”
― What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
― What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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Open Books Chicago
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Sentences: Book Donations to Prison Libraries and Juvenile Detention Centers
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