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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how I think it is with us. It’s a shame... But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.

Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and - no matter how much we despised ourselves for it- unable quite to let each other go

“But for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”


Damn…

“I have committed myself to making, of all this wrongness, something right.”

“‘I think… that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.’”

“Adults are people, and sometimes they are wrong, and sometimes somebody *should* yell at them.”

“aching in silent sympathy”

“This was necessary and I do not mind what I am.”

“Why can’t you just be yourself?”
“Maybe I don’t know who that is”

Listen, don’t say you’re a self help book and then only talk about what God wants…