Alissa York Quotes

• There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.

  Alissa York

  Rivers, Survival, Sorrow

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• John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

  Alissa York

  Pages, Samson, Fluent

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