And what was a home but somewhere you wouldn’t have to feel quite so alone.
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How to apologize for wanting some word, some story, some beautiful thing for my own?
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There is one indisputable way to identify a cult, one characteristic they all share. It is the notion that anyone who does not agree with the group’s beliefs or choices, who expresses concerns, who simply dares to ask questions, is deemed “unsafe.”
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ts voice was like the wind, but also like a thousand trees thinking the same thought.
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A person could work and work and work, and still never “earn” their dues. Sometimes success meant determination… and sometimes, it was just luck.
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Perhaps being too powerful, too unopposed, is a curse in and of itself, leading to boredom and dissipation, and the invention of imaginary enemies whose powers to torment were less limited than those of flesh and blood.
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2024 was full of ups and downs, but still read 120 books. Check out all the stats from reading this year and see the best books I read in 2024.
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The biggest hits—be they Coca-Cola or Doritos or Kraft’s Velveeta Cheesy Skillets dinner kits—owe their success to formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don’t have a distinct overriding single flavor that says to the brain: Enough already!
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Parentified children are often referred to as “old souls” —wise and calm beyond their years. But they can pay for their precocity by harboring a squishy center of insecurity and loneliness, a wound formed in their earliest unsupported years.
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Monsters and flowers aren’t much different. Sometimes they are hard to tell apart—but a good florist knows what to look for.
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When we read, we take in whole eyefuls of words. We gulp them like water.
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Sometimes, when things are broken, I find they fix themselves if you just pretend that they are fine and give them time.
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Fantasy is a safe space; it is not necessarily what we wish was real. Crucially, in a fantasy we don’t need anyone’s permission other than our own: a fantasy is a deliberate, and usually entirely private, act of both memory and imagination.
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There are countless things she would rather be doing. On a night like this, when the blue moon is full and bursting with light like summer fruit, she wants nothing more than to bathe in the moon water that now floods the riverbanks. She wants to sing poorly with no judgment, wearing nothing but the night sky.
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You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It’s not something we generate; it’s something out there waiting to be discovered.
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The best books and book-themed gifts for the holidays!
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Our brain’s performance is being gravely manipulated, resulting in behaviors that leave us more lonely, anxious, depressed, distrustful, illness-prone, and overweight than ever before. At the same time, we feel disconnected from ourselves, from others, and from the world at large.
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I’m not a murderer, and I’m not even a killer, I simply exaggerate self-protection.
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Animals began telling stories of Silver Nose’s nightly journeys and his signal fires. It did not take long for others to start calling him Flame Fox. A being who was black as night during the day and who set fires on fells as the rest of the world was fast asleep.
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A helpful introduction to making magic easy and repeatable in your everyday life.
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