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“I think about all the people I ever knew. Every day I remember someone else, as if they’re all buried inside me like books in a library, just waiting for my brain to pick one out.”

People Books Memory Remembering

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“Maybe Mother will like having another person to talk to. Maybe the only reason she doesn’t want other people is because she doesn’t know them yet and that makes her afraid…”

People Relationships

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“…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words.”

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“I start to understand why waiting has the word weight in it, because it’s heavy, this long time of nothing happening.”

Waiting Patience

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“Mother has always told me to let things go, as though thoughts were objects I could hold and then not hold, like watching something fall from very high up till it’s too far away to see where it lands. I do not know how to le go of thoughts like that…”

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“…my baby’s small face is screwed up and it’s her who screams. She opens her little mouth and she lets out this big scream, and it’s like she has claws, and with that scream her claws take hold and she pulls me towards her. And I want her, I’ve never wanted anything more. I want to hold her and press my nose to her and learn every little bit of her.”

Baby Babies New Parent

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“Decisions made at night are tricksters, elusive and fickle, slippery as fish.”

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“When I climbed the mountain, I was not afraid. What I mean is, I hadn’t learned how to be afraid of things that were only pictures in my head. What I mean is, I think I might be braver than Mother.”

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“I think it’s a wonderful thing to have a laugh like breaking glass. It means that when I laugh, it’s like breaking into a room full of treasures, it’s like a whole possibility for better things, like light in the darkness.”

Laughing Laughter

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“That’s what Mother calls it when she has to say something bad: breaking it. I never knew why before, but now I understand, how the words can make a crack down the middle of an ordinary morning, then push the two edges of it apart until the crack is a river and there is no getting back across it to how things used to be. And now I have to break today.”

Bad News Breaking News

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“Whenever we plant seeds, I like to hold them in my hands before putting them in the soil, just so I can look at them – little dots that will somehow grow into food that will help to keep us alive. How can such a tiny thing carry so much bigness inside it? I don’t understand how it works, but I love that it does.”

Life Seeds Plating

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“…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them.”

People Want Hate Loneliness Isolation

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