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- He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up…
- His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything --…
- My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor…
- My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on…
- The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came…
- But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green…
- I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
- When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his…
- At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could…
- You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
- The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy…
- I thought if I was very quiet, I would hear you. If I was still enough, you might come back.
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