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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Our descendants deserve libraries, not barracks. They deserve to inherit a world that values both their waking lives and their dreams.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight
    tags: descendants, inheritance, libraries, posterity
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: defiance, freedom, slavery
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: darkness, darkness-and-light, inner-light, light
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: loss, love, love-and-loss
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, malice, torture
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution
    tags: lies, truth, truth-and-lies
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Innocence has no place alongside immortality.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: immortality, innocence
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, The Shattered Veil
    tags: death, dying, fading, shadows
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, The Shattered Veil
    tags: death, dying, obliviousness
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Hate feeds on your heart and pollutes your mind. It makes you lose sight of reality and forces you to focus on animosity instead of love. Hate makes you less of a person, because the borders of hate are so expansive they leave no room for anything else, and then the rest of your world becomes tiny and insignificant in comparison.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, The Crystal Lattice
    tags: hate, hatred
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Sand into Glass
    tags: creation, inspiration, light
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    Carl Sagan
    “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: environmentalism, forest, forests
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: evil-twins, twins, weddings
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Arrow of Entropy
    tags: duet, intimacy, music
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “What is love if not the gravity of souls?”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Shards of Chaos
    tags: gravity, love, soulmates, souls
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Cavelost
    tags: journal, memory, writing
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Cavelost
    tags: cave, life, lost, story, strange, underground
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “What do you live for when everyone and everything you love is gone? Do you keep going, keep stumbling through the dark, or do you find something new to cherish? Maybe neither. Maybe you walk silently and ignore the blows time takes on your heart.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: darkness, loss, love, love-and-loss, resilience, time
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: letters, regret, regrets, strength
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: deception, history, lies
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Only the dead remember the truth.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
    tags: dead, history, truth
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “The more things shatter, the more clear it becomes that the brittle and broken things will never again be made whole.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost
    tags: broken, change, shattered
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Did it hurt when your own soul ate you alive? It will hurt more when your secrets come to gnaw at your marrow.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost
    tags: secrets, secrets-and-lies
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “I can breathe where there is green. Green grows hope. It keeps my heart beating and helps me remember who I am.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost
    tags: breathe, grass, green, hope, memory
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Your heartbeat is safe and familiar and all things home. It's the dance of dust on top of the kitchen cupboards, the wind through the rosemary, the brittle flutter of textbook pages, the embrace of a memory until now forgotten.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost
    tags: familiarity, family, heartbeat, home
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Keep the people uneducated and underfed and they'll lavish praise on you for your generosity when you give them a scrap of bread and a pat on the head. Give them more than the minimum and you might find they're better at your job than you are, because their skills are revealed when they can focus on more than survival.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost
    tags: oppression, oppressor, poverty, survival
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “Don't let the silence eat you alive when your mind tries to tell you your voice isn't worth hearing.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost
    tags: anxiety, depression, intrusive-thoughts, silence
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “I miss the floral scent of her hair, the perfume that barely masked the underlying truth of what she was. She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn. And lilac. When she held me to her, lilac was what I smelled first.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora
    tags: clocks, libraries, lilac, lost-time, love, sand, scent, smell-of-rain, time
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    Courtney M. Privett
    “She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn.”
    ― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora
    tags: clocks, libraries, lost-time, scent-of-books, smell-of-rain, time
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