Kory Pachew

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Kory’s Quotes

“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

tags: emotional-healing, healing-journey, inner-child-healing, memoir, self-worth, survivor-story, trauma-recovery

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“our everyday waking consciousness “is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”
― Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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“Again, I’m Irish . . . I speak in essays . . . but I’ll give it my best shot.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

tags: blame, challenges, fiction, guilt, mystery, novel, romance, suspense, thriller, tradgedy

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“Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for.”
― Michael Grant, Eve & Adam

tags: not-pretty, pretty

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“I want all the books on the shelves.

I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

tags: books, censorship, language, literature, misogyny, racism, redaction, suppression

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