#chilling words

[chilling-words]

I felt my heart being torn apart, not with the cold, mechanical quality of a scalpel, but with the blazing fury of a serrated hunting knife that's rusting at the edges.

Lisa Smithers (From “And the Sun Comes Up” on fanfiction.net)

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Israel-Hamas War: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Smith, Carlos set fear aside as they raised their fists

Smith, Carlos set fear aside as they raised their fists

Tommie Smith and John Carlos insist fear was not a factor in their thinking when they reached the medals stand at the Mexico City Olympics.

The sprinters, discussing their black-gloved protest at the 1968 Games, said the threats they had received in the lead-up to the Olympics, to say nothing of what they’d experienced growing up in segregated America, left them numb to the possibility of…

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To the other children, his presence would be that of a ghost, floating from room to room, there, but not.

Lisa Smithers (from the novel “Boy in the Door Way”)

[chilling-words]

It's easier being no one.

Lisa Smithers (from “Boy in the Door Way”)