“One time I asked her why she was so obsessed with what I was thinking, and she got angry and yelled: ‘Because I want to know what’s happening inside you! Because you happened to me! You happen to me every second”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don’t become a critic! Not of other people, and not of yourself.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Death may be a one-time event, but living with a terminal illness is a process.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I was drowning in this man. From the moment I met him, I had been kicking against the current and holding my breath, struggling to get back to the safe, familiar surface—but every look, every touch, dragged me deeper still. I felt the burning of it in my lungs, as real and visceral as if I were plunging into the Sacred Sea itself. And maybe it made me weak, or a traitor, or a fool, but gods did I want to close my eyes and sink forever.”
― Glow of the Everflame
― Glow of the Everflame
“The men will fight for their thrones and their power and their legacies, but to them we are nothing more than crickets and ants, insignificant, expendable. We will continue to worry over the rice and soy sauce and oil, three meals a day, how to escape the cold in the winter and the heat in the high summer, the holes in the roof and the bedding and the taxes. What does it matter who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?”
― A Song to Drown Rivers
― A Song to Drown Rivers
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