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"when one loves something deeply it's very difficult to keep it a secret, isn't it?"

"she will lie, she will hunt, she will kill and she will dance on graves and burn forever in hell before she allows"

"when we were children, I scooped her up behind the yearling barn and ran a distance with her in my arms, laughing, as she told me not to crush her rib cage or her heart would escape."

"perhaps we need to know more specifically what we are fighting to achieve (not only what we are fighting to destroy)"

"ona mentions, gently, that several of the people we love are people we also fear."

"forgiven for what, though, exactly? I asked her. stealing pears, drawing pictures of naked girls? no, no, said the librarian, forgiven for being alive, for being in the world. for the arrogance and the futility of remaining alive, the ridiculousness of it."

"most of us, she said, absolve ourselves of responsibility for change by sentimentalizing our pasts."