“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Monsters Under Your Head
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Monsters Under Your Head
“The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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