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“The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

“We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“When in doubt, just take the next small step”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“I close my eyes, drinking it all in, knowing it is a place in time that I will never forget. The world is dangerous and we will not survive it. But there is this. Impermanent as it may be.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“I understand it so simply now, it is a love that lives in the body but unlike the body it never dissolves. It lasts forever.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“Most of what I do with my days is repair things that are gonna break again soon. I just fix them and then when they break I fix them again. It’s like pushing shit up a hill.” “So why do you do it?” “Because someone has to, or everything just stays broken.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“To live for your children seems a normal thing, a respectable one; to live because of your children is something else. Mine are the blood of me, and the oxygen in that blood, the airflow and the neurons firing and the stretch and release of muscles in limbs, they are the foundations that make up my skeleton, all the collagen and calcium upon which I stand and fall, and the pulse and the flow and the beat. But I think maybe this is too much for them to be. The breath of a man. The life of him. I think it is too heavy a thing for children to carry.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“But what is the use of safety if it deprives you of everything else?”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“Lives should be measured in intensity.
Remember mine
For its glory-stretch of furious light
and wondrous beauty.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country