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“Change is slow and hope is violent.” – Liam Rector, ‘Song Years’

“Distance is unerring proof of friendship.” – Guadalupe Nettel

“Evil needs a choice.” – William Maxwell

“What would I do without laughter? It purges me of my disgust.” – Jean Cocteau

“I am all my me’s,” she said. “I am complete.”

Brilliant so far.

“When the podcast was over, I switched to an Octavia Butler audiobook and played Candy Crush…” YAY I love Octavia E. Butler! Stoked to see her mentioned in this Hank Green book. Go Hank!

“Feeling what deserves to be felt is the only pathway to understanding. Let’s get it straight: white folks did rape and steal and kill, and black folks died by the thousands—was dying all the way up ‘til a year ago. Never feeling shame for that, and not allowing us to feel anger over it, means we don’t evolve… [White folk] not feeling ashamed about [it] is the same as not feeling anything at all.”

“I love you. I’m not just saying that, I really do. [Marianne’s] eyes fill up with tears again and she closes them... She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.” 🥺💘

“We cannot be what we are and what we aspire to be at the same time, something in us has to die for something else to be born.”

“I was learning that our dreams of islands as places of freedom and escape are fanciful – an island is defined by constraints and limits.”