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“Imagination, then, is the torch in the tunnel- not the light at the end of it, but something in your hand that you've lit yourself.”
― Megan Cummins, Atomic Hearts

“Who among us comes through life without regret? Without apology? How often do we create the fire we must step into and hopefully through? And if we are lucky emerge charred, we must then survive coarsely scarred and patched. And still longing. That's love. Difficult to reckon that something so burnt and crusted with anger and hurt can still be called love.”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You

“I was so many things and none of them. Sometimes it made me unsteady. What did it mean to know my place, or to make my place? And what was our place—Maria's and mine?”
― Victoria Redel, I Am You

“If I cannot have her alive, I will wait for the day when I can be her grave.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Heap Earth Upon It