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But resilience required rest. For the next eight months I was going to fall back. The most important thing to remember was that to be at the rear, to be slower, did not mean you were not a leader.


“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them.
It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
― The Poet X
It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
― The Poet X

“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
― The Humans
― The Humans

“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”
― The Humans
― The Humans

“The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.”
― The Humans
― The Humans

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