March 2012
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“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay (via 36974)
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky: One evening an old... →
36974:
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people.
He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,...
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“Maybe, sometimes, it’s easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they’ll always love you, no matter what.” - Ann Brashares
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“When you can feel someone else’s pain and joy as if it’s your own,...”
– Tina Lowell
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'Scuse me while I kiss the sky: I like your flaws. →
I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them. I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you.
I like that you think my opinion of you is so fickle that it could change overnight. (It’s not).
I enjoy...
“Please torture me in the old way… Here they destroy people mentally and...”
– Letters From Guantanamo.
Shaker Aamer has been detained in Guantanamo for the past ten years without committing a single offence. “Fears are growing for the welfare of Mr Aamer, from south London, who is now 45 and has a wife and four children. He has never met his youngest son. His lawyers are...
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