#ape

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say. —Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#frederick-weisel #love #teller #truth #weisel

I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know. Now I feel a reporter should be able to effect change. Your reporting should move people and motivate people to change the world. Maybe this is too idealistic. Young people who want to be journalists must, first, study and, second, recognize that they should never be the heroes of the story. ..A journalist must be curious, and must be humble. --Zhou Yijun ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one's own being. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self. The sun would rise from the eastern horizon, and cut it's way across the empty sky, and sink below the western horizon. This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#desolation #hallucination #horizon #landscape #change

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat! ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#shapeshifters #change

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#escape #freedom #love #freedom

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away. ↗

— Cynthia Voigt

#girl #incest #rape #skin #teen

And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of me that hasn't changed. In this monent I'm not defined by the other things, the things that happened to me, the things I didn't choose. This is the part of me that defines me for all time, for always. The thing I choose completely. ↗

— Daisy Whitney

#moving-on #rape #change

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration. ↗

— Kate McGuinness

#rape #women-s-rights #rape

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child. ↗

— Donald Miller

#diapers #family #marriage #real-life #sunset

Let’s talk about why I’m naked and you’re not. ↗

— Kenya Wright

#lanore #love #meshack #shapeshifter-romance #love