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“Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight...

I whispered your name to a star last night,
Softly, yet so bold.
I closed my eyes, and saw your face
I spoke those words untold.
I wish I may, I wish I might
It shouted from my soul
Have this wish, I wish tonight
This wish I can't let go…”
― N'Zuri Za Austin

“Books were to her what faith was to Martha; she never felt closer to the Father than she did in those moments under the shadow of the book tent, reading the stories of a stranger she'd never met.”
― Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching

“...but I loved.”
― N'Zuri Za Austin

“You're not a monster,' I said.
But I lied.
What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.
I read that parents suffering from PTSD are more likely to hit their children. Perhaps there is a monstrous origin to it, after all. Perhaps to lay hands on your child is to prepare him for war. To say processing a heartbeat is never as simple as the heart's task of saying yes yes yes to the body.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous