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Robert Helfst
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in May 2013
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"This is far superior to the tv show - better character arcs and motivation. Most importantly, though, it's more hopeful. And that makes its conclusion all the more heartbreaking. Excited to pick up Compendium 2 in the near future." — May 03, 2013 07:34AM
"This is far superior to the tv show - better character arcs and motivation. Most importantly, though, it's more hopeful. And that makes its conclusion all the more heartbreaking. Excited to pick up Compendium 2 in the near future." — May 03, 2013 07:34AM
They were the kind of gift someone might give to make a sick child feel whimsical, to graft youth back onto a decaying body.
“If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this place without you. What I feel for you is more than love. It's stronger, peninsular. You connect me to the Mainland. You are my leg of land over dark water.”
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident —
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.”
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like my first bicycle accident —
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.”
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“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
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