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The Meadows
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I surrendered. It was surprisingly easy. In every moment, there was a clear yes and a clear no. Every time, I surrendered to yes. I surrendered over and over, until doing so seemed natural. Seemed almost like my true nature. Until I forgot
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“(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for the way things are; that to improve things, we should pray. But the truth is, we are very much responsible for the badness in the world. And we have the power to fix it.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“And as humans, we’re by-products of our upbringings, victims of our lackluster educational systems, and choosers of our behaviors. In short, the reduction of women to something less than men, and the elevation of men to something more than women, is not biological: it’s cultural. And it starts with two words: pink and blue. Everything skyrockets out of control from there.” Speaking”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.”
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“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun,”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Life carried forward. Decay and rejuvenation. Pain and grace locked in a whirling dance, the blur of red and green. Beauty and horror. Fuck around, find out. Everything cut down to nothing. But nothing becomes everything, too, on a long enough timeline, because that’s the way of things.”
― Black River Orchard
― Black River Orchard
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