#withdraw

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness

She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn’t that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother’s life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

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#loss #morning #mourn #withdrawal #death

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ↗

— Epicurus

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#forced #into #most #should #time