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“Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Even in the most terrible chapters of my life I have always known a certain, savage beauty— in the color of the sky, the sense of birds flying close to my ear, the feel of the soft-loam earth and the joy of running through the untended woods until I became more animal than spirit.”
― Poor Deer
― Poor Deer

“She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again.”
― Poor Deer
― Poor Deer

“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― Babel
― Babel

“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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