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The Liar's Crown

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Abigail Owen

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“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

“Says Juliet love wields the scissors love is the escape love blows through pinholes love refuses to die love holds its breathe though the absence of oxygen love defines the weight of the pillow slips free of the knot love builds a fire out of hope love climbs a rope of maybe love trusts the grappling hook to hold let the world tell us no love is the rusted fire escape that shouldn't support our weight but does”