Kylee Schmuck
@brokenhips
Kylee Schmuck
People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you.
You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look.
What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts
The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing.
Hank Green • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel (The Carls Book 1)
By trading touch for convenience, we surrendered more than physical controls. We gave up our embodied participation in daily life. Surfaces grew glassy and frictionless. Yet friction is what gives us grip. It reveals the contours of our experience and the texture of time.
Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all.
Sabaa Tahir • A Torch Against the Night
People either stole to stay alive or to feel alive. She had to imagine that they ran away for the same reasons.
V. E. Schwab • A Gathering of Shadows
You did one of the most difficult things a man can do: you gave yourself a second chance.”
