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“Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song.”
― The Upstairs House
― The Upstairs House
“Forward only, never back. Do not, in your mind, keep a tally of past horrors. Do not question decisions that cannot be unmade, dwell on actions that cannot be undone. The power to equivocate is no power at all, and that you've ever though it to be is your weakness.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“Some questions are birthed, rather than asked, and having been born they will cry until tended. I knew the story of Pandora's box. I knew the cost of Eve tasting the apple. I didn't care. I was led by my desire.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“Life is not a riddle to be solved. The things that matter most cannot be won, cannot be tricked. They won't be studied, never fully understood.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“Above him, around him, the elder dreams of soil. Dreams of glassy, glinting snow. Dreams of its own greatness - taller, wider, more light. It knows nothing of self-sabotage, regret, or restitution.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
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