The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable and constant change. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS

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What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS 💬📚

Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS

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💬 “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of ourselves to come alive and be honored.” Lindsay Mack’s Monthly Medicine for January 2022

💬 “North Americans practice embalming, but we do not believe in embalming.” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 📚

📚💬 “Never send a scholar who studies dystopias to a conference with futuristic themes.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED

💬 “… fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting around time.” Maria Bamford, THE BURNING BRIDGES TOUR