♡ honey and steel ♡

The heroic child who continues to struggle to make sense out of the world and the people in it, however, is developing a powerful source of strength, no matter what the anguish or bewilderment experienced along the way. Caught in a particularly cruel, frustrating, and irrational environment, he or she will doubtless feel alienated from many of the people in the immediately surrounding world, and legitimately so. But the child will not feel alienated from reality, will not feel, at the deepest level, incompetent to live—or at least he or she has a decent chance to avoid that fate. To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

A horror so deep only ritual can contain it, 

My holy place is [him]. And it is an abomination.

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person the way I talk about things with myself.”

A little of the cold air that blows over graveyards always goes with him…