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She stole the extra quilt from my side of the bed, but I don’t mind. I want her to be warm

He’ll hold himself perfectly still until I ask him for more, unwilling to compromise my boundaries with his wants

I love Jackson so much he’s so sweet and I love his little nervous weather rambles

The post it note contract omg

“If both the last and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?”

“The past was not only changed, but changed continuously.”

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

“But where did they knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.”

“If the party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?”

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”

“Freedom exists only in the moments we exercise it. We must mark the paper; we must refuse. We must bear witness to the facts before our eyes, listen and give clear voices to the bones mute protest, for as soon as we fall silent-from distraction, obedience, exhaustion or fear-our freedom evaporates and we are left worshipping only its empty image.”

“Winston is free. He will be punished, he knows, and yet he writes. Ai WeiWei will be punished, he knows, and yet he speaks.”

“Do you think that, if we were happy do our entire lives, we would die feeling like we’d missed out on something?”

“Some people got no attention. You can understand why they’d go seeking it. If they’re waiting forever for something that might never come.”