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"We would unhesitatingly say that red and yellow are warm, and green and blue are cool, but this division can only be traced back to the eighteenth century. There is evidence that in the Middle Ages blue was considered hot, even the hottest of colors."

"Even though my brain was a mess, what kept my soul whole was the warmth of the hands holding mine on both sides."

"stepping over the prostate soldier" -- WHOOPS.

Okay. I couldn't find this on my bookshelves immediately, and I kind of panicked until I unearthed it.

'“The mind is most powerful in the moment. Focus on the now and the next, not the distant future of maybe and if. Even those of the strongest faith can falter when the eyes focus too far in the distance.”'

"Quarantined to the present, what misfit hearts we keep."

"Among the trees,
a fidgeting chorus of bright birds squawk
anthems of love, sunlight and trouble."

"Sometimes, when you stirred, I could feel
the muffled thunder of your heart,
too troubled for sleep: hooves of panic horses."

Y' know, when an author starts to explain that "if you could cut [whatever] down the middle and view the cross section from the side," seems like it might be a good place for some sort of graphic or illustration. Does this book just COMPLETELY lack them, I wonder, or is it just the Kindle version? Kind of disappointing.

"at the end of the world,
let there be you

my world"

JUST JUMPSTART THE DAMN CAR 😖🤯

'“Is the huddle necessary?” Kai asked grumpily.
“Absolutely. I’ve always wanted to be part of a superhero huddle.”
“Which we’re not,” Aaron snorted.
“Shut up and let me have my moment.”'

"just like a man. he saw God
& instinct told him kill it."

"i am on the battlefield
& i am the field & the battle
& the casualty & the gun."

"what advice do the drowned have for the burned?
what gossip is there between the hanged & the buried?"

"“Learn from your past and be better because of your past,” she would say, “but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.”"

"That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people." [...] "Maybe I didn’t look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you."

"Imagine being thrown out of an airplane. You hit the ground and break all your bones, you go to the hospital and you heal and you move on and finally put the whole thing behind you— and then one day somebody tells you about parachutes. That’s how I felt."

“What kind of a sick person would eat all of Jesus’s body and drink all of Jesus’s blood?”
“A hungry person.”

Okay, this book is ... really heavy, but really good so far.

"the fists that broke my ribs also wanted me to live.

i praise each one true god
for each foot that wasn’t
a sharp anything.

each hand laid upon me like a rude & starving prayer."

"i can’t stop laughing, more river wades down my throat. could be drowning could be becoming the water, could be a baptism from the inside out."

"i did not come to preach of peace for that’s not the hunted’s duty." ❤💔

"In a world like this, all we have left is our ability to empathize."

"your mouth is full of lighter fluid, they said. do not turn people into matches."