Nahtalee Lomeli’s Reviews > Martyr! > Status Update

That’s when everything became super saturated. One of those memories you can squeeze like a rag and watch the details drip and pool.

The genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external…legislators legislated, building walls…”the pain we feel comes from them not ourselves”…and ppl cheered…but the next day they’d wake up and find that what hurt in them still hurt.

[after my grief day] nothing has changed… I was still the same person. It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in

Behind me is silence, and ahead of me is silence… you’ll find your real ending once you stop looking for it…I think real endings… work their way in from the outside

It feels so American to discount dreams because they’re not built of objects, of things you can hold and catalogue and then put in a safe. Dreamed give us voices, visions, ideas, mortal terrors, and desperate beloveds. Nothing counts more to an individual, or less to an empire.

“[a] stone is full of potential energy…all the energy get converted into kinetic energy, action… it’s what makes stones powerful. Sometimes I feel like I’m walking around all stuffed up with potential energy. A stone hanging in the air with no knife sharp enough to cut the rope”

“What was there to complain about…life happened until it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequences. “

It’s interesting the places we make within ourselves to cope with the harsh realities of life.

It’s wild what fear motivates these characters to do.

-The metaphors are killer.
-I feel for Cyrus.

“Your not a bad person trying to be good your a sick person trying to get well”