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“Be aware of not letting other people occupy more of your internal space than you are.”

BASIC but hitting: “On one hand we have need for agency, independence, and choice, and on the other hand we have the need for closeness, connection, support, and union… The basic human drive for agency sits on one end of the spectrum, and the equally human drive for communion sits at the other. All people… share those internal energies, capacities and drives for both autonomy and connection.”

“The eternal pauper in the great marketplace of ideas and of the world, I had nothing to teach anyone. I didn’t have anything anyone wanted. I reread Ivan’s email and looked in the face of this terrible indignity.”💔

pg82: “Sad James and Zee nodded supportively along. They both knew Cyrus well enough to not be flustered by his directness. But Cyrus was, for his part, more than a little surprised by the words as they came out his mouth, how they gave shape to something that had long been formless within him. It was like the language in the air that night was a mold he was pouring around his curiosity. Flour thrown on a ghost.”

oh boris, the mvp hippo you are. tbilisi circa 2015 zoo animals roaming the city was a choice to be sure. the author is right too, we kinda just went about our business haha

also, reading this is making me realize i blame the georgians for me being so incapable of adapting to the capitalistic work ethic, was raised by the living to thrive not survive folks✌🏻

“That’s the great contradiction of colonialism. It’s built to destroy that which it prizes most.”

Ramy, Victoire, and Letty — they became the colours of Robin’s life…

“It’s much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”