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"“Leaving home… is a denial of the spiritual reality that I belong to God with every part of my being… I leave home every time I lose faith in the voice that calls me the Beloved”" — May 04, 2025 06:38PM
"“Leaving home… is a denial of the spiritual reality that I belong to God with every part of my being… I leave home every time I lose faith in the voice that calls me the Beloved”" — May 04, 2025 06:38PM
“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Buttered toast in a sunlit kitchen, a stand of corn and squash out back, a coming reality where sorrow did not draw and quarter them every waking dawn. Is it so much to ask? A three-chord song, a common life? Could we all have that, someday? Could I?”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“I never was anyone's parent, so this rapid expansion of love and terror confounded me.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“But I couldn’t despise Burke; I could’ve been Burke. That’s what I believe. Maybe I still could. What scares me is the notion we are all one rotten moment, one crushed hope or hollow stomach from stuffing someone blameless in a cage.”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
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