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"I punished you with the only weapon I had: silence."

"Really very like a merman if he weren't wearing jean shorts. What is he doing out of the sea?"

"'And still,' I write, 'there is this sense that I could express it all in just one non-existent word and you would understand exactly what I mean.'"

"I start to understand the power of fiction--the reason we make things up ...... These scenes that didn't happen concentrate and distill the emotion of what did."

"This attraction is our only language, and it's fading."

"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be--a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."

"As I run, I want to laugh. Running for a treatment. Sort of defeats the purpose of the relaxation element, doesn't it? But I run with her, the shoes beating harder and faster in my hands."

"The hairy wings of my soul beat excitedly. How the light she emits warms me. I could sleep by it like a fire."

I don't know, Mother, I said. Put me in a sack. Drown me. I'm hopeless. And she'd frown as I smiled.

"Ordered to fetch the head of one of them, he had simply set out to do so with no thought for how the Gorgon might feel about giving it up."

"Imagine being a god, she thought, and still needing to tell everyone how impressive you were."

"She looked anxious to see her family, and these kids weren't it. Not even the one that had her cheekbones."
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"Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life."
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"Who was this woman with the serious eyes, the woman who spoke her mind so bravely? What had she discovered out here in the open?"
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"But I'd like to be part of your notion for a while, all the same."

"Inside me, something opens its jaws."

"It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it."

"In that moment I thought, 'She's gonna be the girl bleeding in a beautiful dress until it kills her.' I felt lost, sad, depressed, sick. I felt really hopeless. But also like I didn't have the luxury of giving up. Like I was gonna have to fight for her. Fight for her, against her, until I lost."

"You're only in charge of me as much as I'm in charge of you."

"You have to learn how to reconcile those two things: having it, and not deserving it. Or you do what I did, and refuse to think about it."

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"I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?"

"Daisy had this incredible voice. It was gritty but never scratchy. You'd have thought she had rocks in her throat that the sound had to travel over."

"They are already absorbed in a conversation that will continue to slowly unspool across all the years they have left."

"She wonders, when she adds up these moments when she exists out in the world, if her lifespan will be any longer, and which would be better. To have those days boiled down into one intense burst of color, or to have the pin removed from the thorax now and then, dusty wings fluttering back to life, a little more time eked out before being locked away again."

"I don't want a man who's horrible to me, but how can I trust a man who's nice?"

"'Oh! stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.'"

"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."

"'We're creatures. I'm Bear, she's Bees.'

Her grandmother had let out an exaggerated sigh and said, 'well, if you must call her by that ridiculous name, at least make it just one bee.'

And Bear had replied, as though stating a fact, 'she's a swarm.'

Maya felt elated to be included in his wildness."

HMMMMMMMMMMM

"We are just women. Draped over couches and pillows, feeling safe. We don't have to talk about the things that hurt us, because we've all been there before."

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"When you slapped someone so hard you draw blood, why stand on ceremony?"