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“All the bright pictures in my head fade and disappear as the sea rushes into me. Into my mouth, my nose, my ears, even my eyes. And suddenly, it doesn't matter. The sea is in me and I am in the sea.”
― Ingo
― Ingo
“Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, her own color, and to hell with her parents.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I am more and less than others have wanted or feared.”
― A Rush of Wings
― A Rush of Wings
“The sea's strong, and wild, and if you make a mistake, the sea will make you pay. Sometimes you pay with your life. Dad used to say that the sea doesn't hate you and it doesn't love you. It's up to you to learn its ways and keep yourself safe.”
― Ingo
― Ingo
“Later,
if you faced the death of bombs and bullets
you did not do it with a banner,
you did it with only a hat to
cover your heart.
You did not fondle the weakness inside you
though it was there.
Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swallowing.”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
if you faced the death of bombs and bullets
you did not do it with a banner,
you did it with only a hat to
cover your heart.
You did not fondle the weakness inside you
though it was there.
Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swallowing.”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
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