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“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.”
― The Star-Touched Queen
― The Star-Touched Queen
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
― Attachments
― Attachments
“It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”
― Small Great Things
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”
― Small Great Things
“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”
― One Day
― One Day
“There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque. Life is little more than a series of overlapping stories about who we are, where we came from, and how we struggle to survive. What we call news isn't news at all: wars, murders, famines, plagues—death in all its forms. It's folly to assign meaning to every chance event, yet we do it all the time.”
― W is for Wasted
― W is for Wasted
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