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“I don't watch the video but I can feel it playing on a loop in a room miles away from where he keeps dying behind my eyes. All I have left are tiny twitches, small choices. "Please," I beg alone in the box of my dark, "I don't want to hurt that way today. I already hurt that way yesterday. Please don't kill him again.”

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Book:Alive at the End of the World

Source: Alive at the End of the World

“Some songs take women places men cannot follow.”

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Book:How We Fight For Our Lives

Source: How We Fight For Our Lives

“A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people but it's the unintended wounds I claim now as children.”

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Book:Alive at the End of the World

Source: Alive at the End of the World

“The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America.”

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Book:Alive at the End of the World

Source: Alive at the End of the World

“We dialed the newly dead but they wouldn't answer. We texted, begging us to call them back, but the newly dead don't know how to read. In America, a gathering of people is called target practice or a funeral, depending on who lives long enough to define the terms.”

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Book:Alive at the End of the World

Source: Alive at the End of the World

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