“Are we running away from home?” I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days, ever since the lady at the Wok On restaurant asked where we were from and my mother lied.
My mother had laughed. I couldn’t see her face, but her laugh I could always conjure—rich, ringing, like bells calling you to a wedding. “No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it.” She paused to brush a strand of hair from my face. “You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.”
― Ghost Flower
My mother had laughed. I couldn’t see her face, but her laugh I could always conjure—rich, ringing, like bells calling you to a wedding. “No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it.” She paused to brush a strand of hair from my face. “You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.”
― Ghost Flower
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
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“Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall”
― Reconstructing Amelia
― Reconstructing Amelia
“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Stolen
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Stolen
“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.”
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
― The Knife of Never Letting Go
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