FERDINAND

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key.

I didn’t move. I’ve learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

She was afraid to want things for herself. She didn’t think she deserved them.

“But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

so i guess today people woke up and logged in just to see how crazy this censorship can get - now you can’t even see your own posts if they were (obviously incorrectly) marked as explicit. actually, there’s a way to see them.

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then – who knows? – maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.”

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”