Your hearts may ache. That ache may be unbearable. But it reveals a truth. You are alive. We are alive. And we are afraid, but far less than we are in love.

we will win, because our hearts may be breaking in a million pieces, but they are not quiet.

it doesn’t actually work on an entire society, not forever, because even thought we are an imperfect species, and even though we can and are acculturated towards terror, it takes so much effort to smother every single part of yourself, save for the venomous bits.

What you are feeling right now, be it volcanic anger or exhaustion or guilt or confusion or incapacitation isn’t just real, it is sacred. It is your heart reacting, in any number of ways, to its own sudden expansion. You are feeling something deeply, and it may or not yet be pulling you in a clear direction, but in either case it is a gorgeous