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    Erelah Emerson
    “I tell her-
    it is okay
    to be a little quiet,
    but when she wants to shout,
    I stand and let her riot,
    I tell her-
    I am here, love,
    I will sit or stand or run,
    and she says
    I am afraid, dear,
    I am tired,
    I am done.”
    ― Erelah Emerson, There is Us
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “My grandpa likes to tell real ghost stories. He loves explaining that term because it’s something he uses to describe the stories that are scary but true. He goes back to the war, when so many people fought and died. Then he goes even further and talks about the world in general. He always ends with one specific line:
    “The reason I’m telling you this is because the world survives through stories and without them we are nothing.”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
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    Raechel Lenore
    “At the Beginning, no one knew,
    A cage built in silence, letting no one through
    Light and dark, a delicate balance
    But the scales tipped and all slipped
    Found and lost in my own glass palace”
    ― Raechel Lenore, There is Us
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    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “You hold no horrors for me”
    ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
    tags: aza, jason, love, magonia
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    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.”
    ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
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    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “Maybe we're brokenhearted, but why isn't it rational to have a broken heart? It is utter shit out there, the things you can't control. The world is full of wrongs, and mess and distress and horror. Who can really be blamed for wanting to dig their way down and live in a hole, or disappear into a cave and never be around humans again? If all people do is hurt each other?”
    ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Aerie
    tags: broken-heart, human, shitty-world
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    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.”
    ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Aerie
    tags: broken, hurt, inspirational, strength
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    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “I think of the note.

    I want to say me too.

    I want to say I know.

    I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It’s my language too.

    I want to say that.”
    ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
    tags: friendship, love, magonia, words
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  • #9
    “Remember my child, listen and learn
    With a story like this, the lessons were earned”
    ― Daniel L.S. Jones, There is Us
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  • #10
    “All that was left was a memory, a song.
    The terror had lost and now it was gone.”
    ― Daniel L.S. Jones, There is Us
    tags: fear, memories, song, writing
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  • #11
    “Never is a melancholy word
    But necessary”
    ― Ziel, There is Us
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  • #12
    “I was stuck trying to find a part of me that would inspire the rise and fall of my chest as you once did...”
    ― Gabby Campos, There is Us
    tags: healing, love, love-quotes, relationships, self-love
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  • #13
    “Their work is never done
    And it makes me hear
    My own heartbeat
    Beating on in spite of me”
    ― Ziel, There is Us
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  • #14
    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “For who listens to headlines,
    Who watches the news,
    And thinks that things spoken could happen to you?”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us
    tags: coronavirus, covid-19, pandemic
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  • #15
    “Even shallow cuts bleed
    (Especially if they touch the heart)”
    ― Ziel, There is Us
    tags: love
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  • #16
    “It’s found we are not trying in the least
    that we in fact have become the beast”
    ― Lucinda Cylights, There is Us
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  • #17
    “So when I say
    "I will see you soon"
    I do not twist the truth
    I merely expand my definition of you”
    ― Ziel, There is Us
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  • #18
    “You are a virus in my bloodstream
    Terminal without an antidote

    and your symptoms are peace and joy”
    ― Ziel, There is Us
    tags: lgbtq, love, partner, poetry
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  • #19
    “If I die, I want to be in the ocean at night.”
    ― Havelah McLat, There is Us
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    Paige Braddock
    “I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories with humor and honesty.”
    ― Paige Braddock
    tags: comic-books, comics, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtq-community, lgbtq-literature
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  • #21
    Jarod K. Anderson
    “You can look at any human life as the sum of a complex collection of chemical reactions,
    in much the same way as you can look at any beautiful painting as a simple collection of pigments,
    Which is to say, you can miss the point of anything.”
    ― Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
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  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    S.J. Blasko
    “He begins to pull the photos, one by one, from their slots.
    “My best friends,” he says softly. “My partner. Our daughter. My favorite teacher. The
    neighbor who took me in and gave me home cooked meals when classes got too much. There’s
    nothing more terrifying than letting your starving heart be loved, and that’s why they’re the
    heaviest weight I carry.”
    ― S.J. Blasko, Growing Things
    tags: anxiety, audhd, autism, friends, love, magical-realism, ocd
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    Nathaniel Luscombe
    “I cling to hope
    Even when it shakes me off”
    ― Nathaniel Luscombe, When One World Ends, Another Begins
    tags: anxiety, encouragement, faith, hope, hopepunk, life, mental-health, philosophy, poetry, resilience
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  • #25
    M.J. Anthony
    “i wish i could go back
    and tell my younger self to smile with her teeth
    it wasn't your fault
    the tick chose you; the doctor chose the drugs
    and even if it were, you have every right
    to bare your yellowed fangs and tell the world to move.”
    ― M.J. Anthony, Tending Clay, Unearthing Stars: Poems
    tags: chronic-illness, confidence, disability, inspirational, lyme, lyme-disease, self-love, sick, tick
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