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“We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

“We lived loud and hard against a neighborhood built to contain us. We moved like the earth pushing its way through cement sidewalks.”
― Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath