It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

Freedom from one man is just another one.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.