Laugh all you want, but I think learning to love yourself in a country where you’re told that you’re a plague on the economy, that you’re nothing but a prisoner in the making, that your life can be taken away from you at any moment and there’s nothing you can do about it, learning to love yourself in the middle of all that? Hell, that’s a goddamn miracle.
Certain bodies don’t belong to their inhabitants. Never have, never will again. A persistent, inescapable, and horrific truth known by millions of unsettled bodies. The Fear.
His whole life was one long, sustained terror that he tried with all of his might to keep to himself. Not just to keep it secret, but to keep ownership of it. He wanted to be selfish with it.