Everyone had suggestions as to what was wrong with me and what I should become.
Everyone had suggestions as to what was wrong with me and what I should become.
What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?
I couldn‘t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
All around you are people dying. See most of them on the street, and you‘d never know it, but here they are lined up, waiting for the latest results of their scans, to discover if they‘ve beaten the odds this month.
Other people ruled my world without my even knowing
You can‘t save people from the world. There‘s nowhere else to take them.
We grew up thinking that our country is invincible and that no invader would succeed in overcoming it. But as we grew older and looked back to our history we realized that our country was indeed just a graveyard for all invaders who stayed long enough to die there and hand it over to yet another invader.
An entire revolution had erupted because one kid was tortured to death in a police station. One death. Now death had become very easy to swallow. What was a couple more? When the military turned people into discarded commodities, there was no telling how high the death toll could climb.
" look at what they‘ve done " the earth cried to the moon " they‘ve turned me into one entire bruise "
" I can‘t help thinking that if we live long enough,we‘ll all eventually forget the lives we‘ve lived. The faces of people closest to us, the memories we swore we‘d hold on to for the rest of our lives. First kisses and last kisses and all the passion between the years."
"Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.. "
" It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding "
- Death