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She Is a Haunting
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writing was there for me the whole time, waiting for me to realize that the stories I had to tell were just as important as everyone else’s and that I could learn the skill needed to tell them.
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Neil Gaiman
“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”
Neil Gaiman

Lord Byron
“Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.”
George Gordon Byron

Sara Baume
“See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.”
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“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.”
Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

Matthew Quick
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

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