Diagnosis is a gatekeeping process, and it slams its heavy bars in the face of anyone who is too poor, too busy, too Black, too feminine, too queer, and too gender nonconforming, among others.
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“The clearest evidence that justice is the most important of all the virtues comes from what happens when you remove it. It’s remarkably stark: The presence of injustice instantly renders any act of virtue—courage, discipline, wisdom—any skill, any achievement, worthless…or worse.”
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The unsaid thing about funerals is that directly after the communal mourning for someone you love, after everyone is gone and the connected grief dispersed, comes a solitude beyond imagining. A great, gaping nothing where a whole person and life and future used to be. The other side of a funeral is abyss.
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Because broken hearts strip vocabularies down to their raw bones…
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“Grief can change a person to the point where they become someone they don’t know, or even like very much. I don’t want that to happen to you.”
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And that is why the world has Holy Grails - not because the world needs Holy Grails, but because the world needs heroes.
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Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.
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I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.
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The plot hadn’t really got going yet - a lot of backstory - but something exciting was going to happen soon. It had to: the title promised it.
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The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
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There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: ‘Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.’
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You listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue. That’s good advice.
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Those broken by worldly violence and loss did not deserve to be shunned when they struggled to rise once more.
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He had made mistakes in the past, bad calls, but fighting against tyranny, against brutality, would never be the wrong choice.
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You only need to look up to see the best proof of endless possibilities.
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Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.
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2023 was a busy, fun, and exciting year at Beguiled By Books. Check out all the stats from reading this year and see the best books I read in 2023.
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… many folk obey ancient laws of hospitality and cannot simply come charging into one’s home to murder guests.”
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Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.
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There were no clicks or eyeballs in the sensible, reasoned middle ground, and all the money in the world in encouraging users to rush to treat the extremes as if they were the center.
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