“No matter how obsessed you've been with your own vanishing, there will always be someone who wants you whole.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“I have been thinking, then, about the value of optimism while cities burn, while people are fearing for their lives and the lives of their loved ones, while discourse is reduced to laughing through a chorus of anxiety. A woman in a Cape Cod diner the day after Christmas saw me eyeing the news and shaking my head. She told me that “things will get better,” and I wasn’t sure they would, but I nodded and said, “They surely can’t get any worse,” which is the lie that we all tell, the one that we want to believe, even as there are jaws opening before us.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“It’s easy to convince people that you are really okay if they don’t have to actually hear what rattles you in the private silence of your own making.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“The thing about grief is that it never truly leaves. From the moment it enters you, it becomes something you are always getting over.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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