Almond
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I have almonds inside me. So do you. So do those you love and those you hate. No one can feel them. You just know they are there. This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me.
“And this moment slips past unnoticed. The end of everything I know, everything I love.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“I have almonds inside me. So do you. So do those you love and those you hate. No one can feel them. You just know they are there. This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me.”
― Almond
― Almond
“Parents start out with grand expectations for their kids. But when things don’t go as expected, they just want their kids to be ordinary, thinking it’s simple. But son, being ordinary is the hardest thing to achieve,”
― Almond
― Almond
“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
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