Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.