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I am losing my empathetic capacity to continue to read this man's story HOW LONG IS THIS LETTER PLEASE RELEASE ME FROM THIS PRISON

"It was a cheap, coarse costume, cheaply and coarsely made, dismissive even in its ridicule. This is what they thought of me, I realised, and later, when Edward first mentioned Lipo-wao-nahele, it was this night that I remembered, the sensation of watching, frozen, as everything I was, and everything my family was, was brutally dismembered, stripped naked, and pushed onto the stage to be howled at."

I didn't know this entire book would be about daddy issues

"We often end up resenting our children when they achieve what we've wished for them"

"[...] that to know someone and to love them was to assume the task of remembering them, even if that person was still living. No one could escape that duty, and as you aged, you grew to crave that responsibility even as you sometimes resented it, that knowledge that your life was inextricable from another's, that a person marked their existence in part by their association with you."