Will Sasaki

“The difference between wanting to not be alive and wanting to die.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“If the moral sin of suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among all those who survive you, then the mortal sin of the martyr must be pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself — which, because it is inevitable, means nothing”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Can you imagine having that kind of faith?” Cyrus asked. “To be that certain of something you’ve never seen? I’m not that certain of anything. I’m not that certain of gravity.” “That certainty is what put worms in their brains, Cyrus. The only people who speak in certainties are zealots and tyrants.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“A person the system was never built to serve bears the responsibility of dreaming up a better one, and who can say how much better?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This