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"Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past."

Chapter: All God's Children

It is already more than harrowing the way black adults are disproportionately and completely unjustly punished. Doubly so, there is nothing more heartbreaking to me than the indifference of humanity and our complete negligence as we fail our children over and over again.

Everything is so fucked up and people are evil and infuriatingly willingly ignorant and then you read from and about the most compassionate people on the opposite end of the spectrum and the difference throws me off-kilter

"There's something deep within me, something intensely fragile, that is terrified of turning itself to the world."

"I know that if i'm hit where I am earnest, I will never recover."

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Yes, I am invested in John Green's childhood scratch 'n' sniff sticker collection.

I fear I have already cried twice! I fear this one might wreck me!

"And I am more than enough. (I think they call it a 'breakthrough'.)"

"And I am more than enough. (I think they call it a 'breakthrough'.)"

"I was twenty-seven and I felt like I was toppling from a gale of anxiety."
LOL

My Therapist Says
" 'But none of this is having a visible effect on my life,' I said. 'I feel silly for coming here because it all could be so much worse. I have great friends, a great family. My work is going well. No one would know that anything is wrong with me from the outside. I just feel shit. All the time.'
'If you feel shit all the time,' she said, 'it's having a very, very big effect on your life.' "

"Somewhere in our fifteen years of walking side by side, from school to university lectures, to the streets around our first place in London, we had stopped playing at being grown-ups and accidentally become grown-ups."

Florence

" 'It may seem that life is difficult at times but it's really as simple as breathing in and out,' she read. 'Rip open hearts with your fury and tear down egos with your modesty. Be the person you wish you could be, not the person you feel you are doomed to be. Let yourself run away with your feelings. You were made so that someone could love you. Let them love you.' "

"I found it impossible to articulate how I was feeling to anyone; I spent huge swaths of time on my own. There was a hum in my body of disinterest, ennui and anxiety, as low and simultaneously disruptive as a washing machine on a spin that won't turn off."

Dolly at 25

"My health was plummeting, my stocks were up."

"I could feel myself pushing my life away and became more and more absorbed in a completely false sense of control."

Our adolescent experience was so different but she paints a vivid picture! Reads like fiction almost