I think when youโre dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You canโt let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.
Chris CrutcherI walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.
Chris CrutcherLove, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.
Chris CrutcherIf you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.
Chris CrutcherSo you didnโt tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .โ โBecause experience is the only teacher,โ Hey-Soos says. โEven if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids donโt listen to their parents, or people donโt leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? Thereโs only one thing thatโs universal.โ โWhatโs that?โ โThe truth.
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