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The remarking on Senegalese beauty, the tone of it, betrays a deep insecurity, a shock that the deepest and blackest part of us is really beautiful.

But I know how sadness can exert its own gravity, growing more powerful the longer it holds you.

I was numb, which is different from being calm, but one was as good as the other,

killed to murdered, riot to protest, she was beaten to he beat her, Language, too, is never neutral.

She thought that to children adult motives and actions must seem as bulking and ominous as dangerous animals seen in the shadows of a dark forest. They were jerked about like puppets, having only the vaguest notions why.

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You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person. Especially yourself.

I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.

I may be walking through the valley of the shadow of death, but I fear no evil because I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

Die screaming. Scratch and slash to your last breath.

“This shit is so Toddamn weird,

“Did I fuck you up?” Her voice breaks. “What? No,” I lie. “I think I fucked you up.”“No.” I shake my head. “No, no, you didn’t. If I’m fucked-up, it isn’t because of you.” She’s crying. “I’m fine, Mom, really,”

“Did you turn to her when you were upset or scared?” I consider the question. I think of myself in my bedroom, lying under my blankets, muffling the sound of myself crying into my pillow. “No.”

“Oh my Todd, chill,” she says, invoking the fuckboy deity we made up because Yivi says only an asshole named Todd could have created a universe this shitty.

My natural symmetries. My Sydney Sweeney lips.—Bad Timing

I managed to overcome aspiring to appear normal but never really figured out what I should aspire to be.

I wish I could have one nice interaction with everyone and then disappear.

“Don’t talk yourself out of fear. Fear is important. It keeps us safe. There is a reason we feel fear.”