“It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don’t understand, we tamper with until we destroy it.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“We’re all guilty of hiding things—it’s the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There’s no way to know what’s real anymore.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“I fucking matter,” she tells Cas, her cheeks growing pink. “He has no right to tell me I don’t.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now. Not our memories.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“I'm feeling so much and thinking so little.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“We hide our feelings, we hide our past, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“For a moment we knew what it felt like to be free.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“You don’t matter, Dallas,” he says seriously. “You don’t matter the way she does and you know it. I love her. And that’s all I’m going to say about it.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“His angry expression softens, and then he shoves my shoulder playfully.
"Hey!" I push him back, to which he retaliates until I'm finally smiling.
I love how we can do that--break through the misery to always find each other.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“Dallas closes the leather case, set to store it away in her closet. She looks at the message one last time, memorizes it, and leaves the postcard on the table before she walks away. You matter.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“Like my soul is wearing thin.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“My eyes are trained on the trees, but my heart begins to race. “Maybe it’s time you try,” I say. I’m not in denial; I’ve always known Realm was hiding something. But now, here, I’m scared of what he has to say.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
“Years ago, when physicians didn’t know how to treat the mentally ill, they began shock therapy, and in extreme cases—lobotomies. They would poke holes in their brains, Miss Barstow. Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don’t understand, we tamper with until we destroy it.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Treatment
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“The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“Now, like all the other schools I’ve ever attended, the hallways of Long Beach Middle School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There’s only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don’t read too much. I guess reading really isn’t a job requirement in the high-paying fields of name-calling, nose-punching, and atomic-wedgie-yanking.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“إن الناس الذين يعيشون في كنف نظم ما بعد الشمولية يدركون جيداً أنه أهم من وجود حزب واحد أو أكثر من حزب في السلطة, وأسماء هذه الأحزاب, هو هل يمكنكم الحياة كآدميين أم لا.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“The Buddha isn’t a god or deity to be worshipped. He was a rebel and an overthrower, the destroyer of ignorance, the great physician who discovered the path to freedom from suffering. The Buddha left a legacy of truth for us to experience for ourselves. The practices and principles of his teachings lead to the direct experience of liberation. This is not a faith-based philosophy, but an experiential one. The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“The first commendment of hte post 1970s meritocracy can be sumed up as follows: "Thou shall provide equality of opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, or sexual oritentation, but worry not about equality of outcomes." But what we've seen time and time again is that the two aren't so neatly separated. If you don't concern yourself at all with equality fo outcomes, you will, over time, produce a system with horrendous inequality of opportunity. This is the paradox of meritocracy: It can only truly come to flower in a society that starts out with a relatively high degree of equality. So if you want meritocracy, work for equality. Because it is only in a society which values equality of actual outcomes, one that promotes the commonweal and social solidarity, that equal opportunity and earned mobility can flourish.”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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