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47 quotes
American author and vlogger
“As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.”
"We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."
on Hope
"There is no Them. There are only facets of Us."
on Identity
"depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
on Death
"On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are."
on Empathy
"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."
"We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken."
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back."
on Love
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back."
on Wisdom
"...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long."
on Life
"The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel."
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
on Forgiveness
"We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]"
"Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought."
on Philosophy
"How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"
"At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved."
"There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."
"There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."
"humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel"
on Emotion
"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
"And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."
on Truth
