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”Remember that the key thing about life on earth is change.”

”Life lesson: the way out is never through yourself.”

“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?”

”You will always be quite intense. And the depression might always be there, waiting for the next fall. But there is so much life waiting for you. The one thing depression has told you is that a day can be a long and intense stretch of time.”

”Where talk exists, so does hope.”

“Never before had I missed my past. I always thought of it as a line I had crossed and moved far beyond. Now I know I built nothing real in its absence. A paper house, a card castle. How easily it almost crumbled.”

”I rained every time I moved.”

”The world feels complete and whole, and I, its child, fit into it seamlessly.”

”perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock.”

”Even then I knew that the tides were not random. I saw that if I could record them, I might be able to predict their appearance.”

”Förändringen må vara konstant, men förändringens hastighet är det inte.”

”Chris Paul scored thirty-one points in the second half! He really wanted that ring. It’s weird that a person can play the most phenomenal basketball you’ve ever seen and still be labeled a loser. It’s like when a couple divorce after ten, fifteen, twenty-five years of marriage and we call that a “failed marriage.” Sounds like a successful marriage to me.”

“How small did I think I was? Not physically small, but how small was my presence that I thought I could fit inside of another person, even if so wanted to? Aham could not contain me. I can’t even contain me. I am immense.”

”I’ve been fighting for decades to stop constructing my sense of self based on external feedback, so why would I let any stranger tell me I’m wrong about how my brain feels? Self-diagnosis is a core principle of intersectional disability justice, because not everyone can access formal diagnosis, not everyone want one, not everyone is made safer with one.”

”Not for the first time, I wondered what polyamory had to offer straight women. Multiple men? No thanks!”

”If you think thin people are better than fat people, then FUCK YOU. I hate you, and you deserve nothing.”

”My experience with men never taught me love; they thought me manipulation and how to survive on the bare minimum.”

“And you thought your personality was sufficient birth control?”

”Are you suggesting I’m a few sandwiches short of a picnic?”

”…just carried on running up that hill, like Kate bleedin’ Bush.”

”But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”

“Maybe it’s because he whispers to the wind and hears its voice in return.”

”I have hated my mother for most of my life but it is her face that I see as I drown. “

”Birgitta Trotzig skriver: ”jag blir heller aldrig mera barnet i solen. Ingenting kan upprepas”

”Jag följde bloggen i flera år, och den blev min bild av moderskapet. En trygg bubbla långt ifrån verkligheten, antagligen långt ifrån hennes egen verklighet också.”

”How am I supposed to tell people they’re good enough as they are when I don’t think I am?”

…aouch, that hit hard.

“They just…don’t understand what you are. Or maybe they can’t fit you into their beliefs, and that scares them. The unknown makes us stupid sometimes.”

“I’m here to meet humanity, and these people you’ve described are just as much a part of it as you are. I wouldn’t be doing a very good job of pursuing my quest if I only welcomed the parts that were fun.”

“I don’t understand how you can keep riding past these,” the robot called down the road.
Dex knew what they would see in their mirror before they turned an eye to it: Mosscap standing in the middle of the highway, neck craned with awe at the flowered branches that were exactly like the thousand other branches they’d already passed by.”

”So you see now, Lady Yin, power is such a wicked thing. Razing everything in its path, consuming all, leaving none untouched. Not even the kindest of souls among us are spared, once they have had so much as a taste.”