man, throwing down his sword in outraged disgust: No! This is not what I signed up for! There are limits to how low even someone such as I is willing to sink.

“The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."