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“As I reached out for help, everyone shrank back from me; they pulled away from fear that the fire would return”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“I don’t want to disappoint you, but Toku herself said at the time that she couldn’t actually hear the voices of beans. But if you live in the belief that they can be heard, then someday you might be able to hear them. She said that was the only way for us to live, to be like the poets. That’s what she said. If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“She said that was the only way for us to live, to be like the poets.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“I buried myself in the woods today. Covered myself in flowers and pretended to be dead." She raised her pen for a moment and thought, then went back to writing in cursive that could rival Sister's.
"You should always wait for late spring to die, Juno," she says then. "The flowers are better".”
― Juno Loves Legs
"You should always wait for late spring to die, Juno," she says then. "The flowers are better".”
― Juno Loves Legs
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