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I’ll be okay for a while. Then it clobbers you like a wave you didn’t see coming. Crashes into you and pulls you under so that, for a few seconds, you can’t breathe.”
“To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“When you’re an active alcoholic, you give up everything for one thing. But when you commit to sobriety, you give up one thing for everything.”
― The River Is Waiting
― The River Is Waiting
“I would leave my past behind and try to build my life again, hoping not for miracles but simply for strength in new soil. I figured that if my trees could survive, uprooted and against the odds, then, damn all bad fortune, so too could I.”
― Go as a River
― Go as a River
“Still”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“It is strange that I am dying from a diseased womb, I who have never had periods and who have never known men.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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