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“You make your own luck.”
“People who are very lucky always say that.”

“Love is not quiet. It is heart racing and big. It’s the sky. It’s the storm.”

“Just cos it’s not a life you want don’t mean it’s not a life.”

"She was pretty for a girl from Kent. She's less pretty for a Queen."
sick burn, lol

Oh hey, unexpected Oklahoma shout out

“The most beautiful things never hold up on a screen. That is why I became a writer and not a photographer.”

“Over invest in the short term and you mortgage the future.”

“Excellence as a practitioner does not mean excellence as a leader.”

“No good life is free from unease because unease is the start of exploration.”

"Together, they were a sort of homecoming without going home. Not expats, not immigrants, but people of many places with a composite identity."

“I am starting to think that ‘church’ might just be another word for ‘people.’”

"Sometimes the love of strangers is much more terrifying than the hate."

“It’s easy to go everywhere when you’re the one who sets the traps.”

“Attention, or too much of it, could become another form of clutter.”

"She is not
My mother.

She is a wife whose husband
Is sick."

"[She] is the kind of girl
Who likes

The kind of things her
Friends like."

"How long has this tumour
Been growing?

Was it in my father during
My concerts?

Did it join us for
Sunday dinners?

How long has it been a part of
My father?

A companion he never
Asked for."

"She says I should be more
Considerate
Of her feelings when I am
Achieving things."

"Basking in the misfortune of
Others.

Engaging in the only
Real currency

A student can
Trade in."

"A choir is not where you go if you want
To be alone.

In choirs there are no stars
Only constellations."

"You are only as happy as your saddest child."

"She turns on
The radio.

And we drive home listening to
The sound

Of someone else's
Broken heart."

"secrets told over Polly Pockets
And McFlurrys" 🩷

"The truth is that whoring yourself out can take you pretty far if you do it with intention. Look at Mary Magdalene, now there is a woman who understood the assignment."

ooooofffff

“Is it a choice if there’s only one option?”

“I bet you’d love to see where ham comes from” is such a diabolical thing to say to a child.

“She held her intelligence like a knife behind her back.”

“Never give away what you’re good at for free.”

“It was like a penthouse in midtown Manhattan. Or the Cullen Residence in Twilight.”

And there it is, the obligatory millennial author’s Twilight reference.