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“If there is a door to my kingdom in this godforsaken warren of stones and peaks, I have absolute faith that you, of all people, will find it.”
“Everything that dies never really goes. In little ways, it all stays." Not in the horrific way Lee wrote it. Not with the moaning ghosts and terrifying poltergeists and living dead, but in the way the sun came back around again, the way flowers browned and became dirt and new seeds bloomed the next spring. Everything died, but pieces of it remained.”
― The Dead Romantics
― The Dead Romantics
“We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and our present. The future is unwritten. This is a book about ghosts. For we live in a haunted house.”
― Before the Devil Breaks You
― Before the Devil Breaks You
“You're becoming. You're in the process of becoming. You just don't know what yet.
That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future.”
― You Know Me Well
That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future.”
― You Know Me Well
“Because loneliness was the kind of ghost that haunted you long after you were dead. It stood over your plot in the cemetery where a lone name sat carved in marble. It sat with your urn. It was the wind that carried your ashes when no one claimed your body.”
― The Dead Romantics
― The Dead Romantics
“Feelings are relative. And at the root, they’re all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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