“Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

VIRGO Long ago someone dear to you didn't treat you with the care you needed or the respect you deserved. You can be sure that this person has regrets — not that it brings you any satisfaction.

“And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.” ― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (yup)

the golden rule is lame

“Diamond Rule”: “Do that which others need and no one else can do in your place”.

"I can only testify that he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from most."~The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen

If you lose your fear of God la la

I wouldn't have watched except it came on during Jeopardy and I was sitting there...and I swear, WTF IS TALKING ABOUT??, he just makes no sense, it's like listening to one of the old guys at the nursing home who you can tell used to be an asshole but now is just nuts....and then, Did he just say he was at a 711 when it was attacked by terrorists??? Not quite lol

Scary stupid

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans—i.e., “human relationality”—that undergirded meaning. Yet somehow, this process existed in brains and bodies, subject to their own physiologic imperatives, prone to breaking and failing.~When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

You left me, sweet, two legacies,—
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had he the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain
 Capacious as the sea,
 Between eternity and time,
 Your consciousness and me.

—Emily Dickinson

"I can't go on, I'll go on." Samuel Beckett

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” ― Bertolt Brecht