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“I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A to point Z overnight. You can't make me a fucking suburban teenager now, after what's gone down. It'll never happen.”

Book:Raised by Wolves

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Raised by Wolves

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Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg is an influential American photographer known for his unique style and profound insights into social issues. His work often focuses on marginalized communities and individuals, documenting their stories through photography. more

“I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead. When something is lost, redirect energy, follow the derivé, the chance and flow of what life tosses us, and make something new instead. Remember that I'm often struck by certain passages of descriptive writing, writing that is not about driving home a point but about providing detail, background, setting the scene (it's tempting to call this the stadium of writing). It has a "something from nothing" quality: a pleasurable experience has been had, and no one has paid a price. Remember that writing does not have to be torture (107).”

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Book:Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays

Source: Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays

“I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.”

Homelessness Homeless Youth Tweeky Dave

Book:Raised by Wolves

Source: Raised by Wolves

“The quartz rocks stared at her as if they, too, wanted to go wherever she was headed. Once she was dressed she pulled the smallest one off the shelf and let it hitch a ride in her in her pocket, for luck.”

Luck Quartz

Author:Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Life turns, and returns death. Where death digs its claws into the grave only to pull out life, as a baby from a womb; and the recycle of air, the recycle of struggles that never achieve satisfaction, in a constant turning world, of an untuned universe.”

Life Death Universe Satisfaction Womb Struggles Rotating Recycle

Author:Anthony Liccione

“Ibadah yang kita lakukan belum tentu berpahala sedangkan maksiat yang kita buat sudah pasti menghasilkan dosa.”

Dosa Pahala Ibadah

Author:Felix Y. Siauw

“Menulis untuk saham akhirat. Tulis baik dapat pahala. Tulis dusta domba fitnah dapat dosa.”

Dosa Tulis Pahala

Author:simpleshida

“When I could hold my eyes open long enough, I did stare up at the rain pelting down on me. I’ve never looked at it like that, straight up into the sky, and while I flinched more than I could actually see, when I could see it was absolutely beautiful. Like each drop rocketing towards me was separate from the thousands of others and for a suspended moment in time, I could glimpse it and see its delicate facets. I saw the gray clouds churning above me and felt the car shake when the wind from the traffic pushed against it. I shivered even though it’s warm enough to swim. But nothing I saw or felt or heard was as warm and fascinating as Andrew’s closeness.”

Rain Clouds Roofs

Book:The Edge of Never

Source: The Edge of Never

“...the tensions between settled peoples and transients everywhere...”

Permaculture Society Caribbean History Displaced Peoples Generational Continuity Settler Stories

Book:Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

Source: Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

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