In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.