Jun

“...it is cruel jest to say to a BOOTLESS man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
― MLK JR.

“He was laughing that silent and hard laugh reserved for true enthusiasm.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“George says that if you look at the person someone chooses to have "a relationship" with, you'll see what they think of themselves. So Harrison is what I think of myself. It's hardly a relationship, but nevertheless he is a choice. I examined all the options and chose the most likely to leave. No emotional investments. Never love for me—only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them—my choices are always on the run.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“The modern barbarity of ‘saving’ the suicidal is based on a hairraising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays