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“I read once that the human body slowly pushes shrapnel back out through the skin. That a shard of metal can take years to reach the surface and finally truly be expelled. Veterans get bits coming out of them decades after wars. Could the same thing happen to memories? Perhaps that was what I was feeling: an itchy, irksome thing, a foreign object inside me, moving just millimeters every year, tearing through me until it breached.”
― Eggshell Skull
― Eggshell Skull
“Falling in love is really quite simple,” she says. “You want to know the secret? It’s the same thing we are all doing about life every single day.”
I look to her.
“Forget there’s an ending.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
I look to her.
“Forget there’s an ending.”
― Carrie Soto Is Back
“At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to be a tool for managing inequality and maintaining the status quo. Police reforms that fail to directly address this reality are doomed to reproduce it.”
― The End of Policing
― The End of Policing
“For Brits, class was like humility: you only had it as long as you denied it.”
― Exciting Times
― Exciting Times
“You keep describing yourself as this uniquely damaged person, when a lot of it is completely normal. I think you want to feel special - which is fair, who doesn’t - but you won’t allow yourself to feel special in a good way, so you tell yourself you’re especially bad”
― Exciting Times
― Exciting Times
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