John Khalil

“Everybody thinks they're the exception to the rule, and that's exactly where the trouble starts. One person can do a lot of damage.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I know about a lot of things, but only a little in each regard.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I will give you what you desire. I will lead you into solitude. I will lead you by the way that you cannot possibly understand, because I want it to be the quickest way.”
"Therefore all the things around you will be armed against you, to deny you, to hurt you, to give you pain, and therefore to reduce you to solitude.”
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“All the good things that other people love and desire and seek will come to you, but only as murderers to cut you off from the world and its occupations.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to just exist in this world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built