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Being a human is a complicated game – like seeing a ghost in the mirror and trying to echo everything they do. Or like walking in step, but with someone trying to trip you up – and you’re juggling at the same time, with people pelting more
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“I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.”
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“Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.”
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“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
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the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
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“When I am afraid to speak is when I speak.
That is when it is most important.”
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That is when it is most important.”
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“All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.”
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