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“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. out of wounds and across boundaries. Sadness becomes seizure. Empathy demands another kind of porousness in response. My Stephanie script is twelve pages long. I think mainly about what it doesn't say.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
aqsa.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at aqsa.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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