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Just finished reading "Grief is a Thing with Tense Issues" and I'm just staring into the void. Destroyed.

She still thinks that what she
thinks will affect what she gets.
She still believes tantrums
might her way. She
doesn't know yet that nobody
gets her way.

We're all lucky if we get
anything at all, come
dinnertime, come night, the
next morning and the next hot
morning, the next endangered
livingspace if we get to stay
there. We can't carry all that
stuff. But she doesn't think of it
as stuff.

"I thought thoughts I was
ashamed to speak in case they
were what everyone already
thought or in case they were
unthinkable thoughts nobody
would dare think much less say
which would blow up the world
everyone else had to live in if I
said them."

"The Self must create
Its own reasons for being.
To shape God,
Shape Self.

EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING"

"Your God doesn't care about you at all," Travis said.
"All the more reason to care for myself and others. All the more reason to create Earthseed communities and shape God together."

"I had to learn to pretend to be normal. My father kept trying to convince me I was normal. He was wrong about that, but I'm glad he taught me the way he did."

"Maybe you are normal-- I mean if the pain isn't real, then maybe--"

"Maybe this sharing thing is all in my head? Of course it is! And I can't get it out. Believe me, I'd love to."

"If you are in charge," he intoned, "then it is my duty to inform you that you are under arrest."
"A rest of what, friend?"