Status Updates From A Kind of Duty

I fucking hate it here

No suelo marcar los fics... pero ya que esta

“You’re not weak for being scared, Dennis. But you are weak if you let that fear make your decisions for you.”

"Each touch felt like a new line in a language he hadn't fully learned yet. Not because Dennis asked too much--he never did--but because something deep in Robby still hadn't figured out how to stop flinching at his own desire..."

💔💔💔 me after enduring years of religious trauma

"Prayer can work like a mantra," she said. "Especially in crisis. It's breath. It's rhythm. It's focus."

He gave her a sideways glance. "I'm not exactly devout."

"You don't have to be," she said simply. "Faith is still faith. It doesn't have to come from a book. Sometimes it's just reaching for something bigger than yourself."

"I might be on the street, but people like him? They're the ones I pity. Came into this world with no sense of how to serve. No idea what it means to care for someone besides yourself...And what's a life without service? Just taking and guarding and building walls around things that don't even last."