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minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or
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“There's more to life than the things in front of you. . . Sometimes we hold on to things we shouldn't. People. Places. Emotionals. We try to control all of it, when what we should be doing is trusting in something bigger. If we are lost, God is like water, finding the unknowable path when we cannot.”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your faith in something greater than yourself.”
― All My Rage
― All My Rage
“Shazi,
I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—
For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.
Khalid.”
― The Wrath and the Dawn
I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—
For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.
Khalid.”
― The Wrath and the Dawn
“How quickly a body can betray you. It will carry you your whole life and
suddenly—finished. It will carry your soul no longer.
Did the soul grow too weary for the body? Did the body grow too weary
for the soul? Was it a betrayal of organs and tissues, sinews and cells?
Or was the betrayal that I did not care for my body the way I should
have? That when I knew my body was screaming for aid, I ignored it, in
service of what the soul wanted, which was the comfort of routine and
familiarity.
Who was the traitor, truly? The body? Or the soul?”
― All My Rage
suddenly—finished. It will carry your soul no longer.
Did the soul grow too weary for the body? Did the body grow too weary
for the soul? Was it a betrayal of organs and tissues, sinews and cells?
Or was the betrayal that I did not care for my body the way I should
have? That when I knew my body was screaming for aid, I ignored it, in
service of what the soul wanted, which was the comfort of routine and
familiarity.
Who was the traitor, truly? The body? Or the soul?”
― All My Rage
“When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"
He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again.
"You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes.
"Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.”
― Lady Midnight
He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again.
"You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes.
"Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.”
― Lady Midnight
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