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“The person who tries to place you in the darkness they live in has reached full blown distress. This is the saddest part of their situation. They are about to give up. Instead of reaching for help, they reach for company so they’re not alone.”
― Ron Baratono

“As long as you have tears to shed, you can certainly still laugh.”
― Sōseki Natsume, The Miner

“If I ever say, “I have undone that deed,” I shall be both a fool and a liar. Counsel me, if you will, to forget that deed. Counsel me to do good deeds without number to set over against that treason. Counsel me to be cheerful . . . Counsel me to plunge into Lethe. All such counsel may be, in its way and time, good. Only do not counsel me “to get rid of” just that sin. That, so far as the real facts are concerned, cannot be done. For I am, and to the end of endless time shall remain, the doer of that wilfully traitorous deed. Whatever other value I may get, that value I retain forever. My guilt is as enduring as time.”
― Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity: With a new introduction by Frank M. Oppenheim

“It was as though you struggled against
fierce current jagged with debris
to save me then. I am desperate still.”
― Robert Hayden, Collected Poems