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“Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don’t have to keep doing this if you don’t want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want. That’s what they tell us at school, but if you keep getting on that train and going to the place you hate I’m going to start thinking the people at school are liars like the Nazis who told the Jews they were just being relocated to work factories. Don’t do that to us. Tell us the truth. If adulthood is working some death-camp job you hate for the rest of your life, divorcing your secretly criminal husband, being disappointed in your son, being stressed and miserable, and dating a poser and pretending he’s a hero when he’s really a lousy person and anyone can tell that just by shaking his slimy hand—if it doesn’t get any better, I need to know right now. Just tell me. Spare me from some awful fucking fate. Please.”
― Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
― Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand why other people act the way they do” into “I’m trapped in a faerie realm.” It turns “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell” into “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.”
There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons.”
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There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons.”
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“It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.
It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings.
It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.”
― Two Boys Kissing
It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings.
It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.”
― Two Boys Kissing

“Someday I’m going to push Jericho Barrons as far as I can and see what happens.”
― Bloodfever
― Bloodfever

“Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.”
― The 5th Wave
― The 5th Wave
Snow and Ashes
(Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated Feb 07, 2013 06:34AM
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Work in progress. Supposed to be a collection of stories of a dead world that lives on through memories.
Frayed
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1 chapters
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updated Feb 06, 2013 05:37AM
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Can't really say much other than it isn't complete, only a few paragraphs. I meant to write it as a birthday present for my sister who confesses to never having liked any fairytale; but her b'day came and passed and I was no more further :( !

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