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Famous Emily Skaja Quotes
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“My mind is a wishbone drying. I hold it taut & pull to break.”
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“I said I never want to survive that story again”
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“New inadequate gestures of suffering Chimeric thing”
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“as if my own voice could return me to myself.”
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“Is it giving up if you give what you have & the universe still fucks you”
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“Don't tell me the sun is an exit the sky is a clamp.”
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“We're almost a whole shadow now from far away.”
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“What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify anyone who leaves me—”
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“How many implements of shame should I hold against myself?”
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“I know what to do with the dark.”
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“Hello you are a vessel of vessels.”
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“but I can stand here reciting all the words I have over the hole & that's what's left—”
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“Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless”
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