She Would Be King

low the emotion, is a gift. But in that place we stopped feeling when our spirits were killed. Laughter was a reaction. Tears were a reaction. Those screams were a reaction. But the source of them—the mother of joy, of sadness, or terror—was a ghost like me.

And without a spirit, you cannot feel. You react, but the longer you exist in a world without your spirit, the less

The suggestion that being good meant that he was to protect what was in this oppressor’s interest, but allow his own flesh to meander about life until they were all an infinity of broken men. Strong then, yes. But not a good man. He would not be that.

Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind

“Hell, when I die, bury me the way I came. Want to be ready to show God my scars and ask why

The suggestion that joy meant serving. The suggestion that, though misplaced

mothers should feed their children

fathers should protect their daughters.