We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death. - Agnostic Zetetic
One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die. - Agnostic Zetetic
What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'. - Agnostic Zetetic
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic. - Agnostic Zetetic
If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now? - Agnostic Zetetic
Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens. - Agnostic Zetetic
Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me 'Calm down.' Being raped comes next, and that’s a fact I’m never going to forget. - Agnostic Zetetic
If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need. - Agnostic Zetetic
I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world. - Agnostic Zetetic
There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in one’s underwear on a beautiful summer day. - Agnostic Zetetic
Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead. - Agnostic Zetetic
If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet. - Agnostic Zetetic
I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them. - Agnostic Zetetic
We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in. - Agnostic Zetetic
There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails. - Agnostic Zetetic
May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win. - Agnostic Zetetic