“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, 'Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' 'No, what?' I would say. 'A piece of dust.' Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.”
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“I am not some genie, bound to your whim.' He pushes off the tree. 'Nor am I some petty forest spirit, content with granting favors for mortal trinkets. I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play. And tonight, I say no.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“You don't have to explain,' I say, though all I want is a detailed explanation with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation.”
― The Ex Talk
― The Ex Talk
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