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“Now here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with one 's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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“When someone steals another person’s ideas, it does not speak to the value of what was stolen, but to the emptiness of the one who steals. A true mind creates; it does not copy. Originality cannot be taken from another — it is born of thought, vision, and the courage to be oneself. Ideas can be taken, but the mind that created them — never.”

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“I am a ghost town, my body still exists among the remnants and relics, but no one lives here anymore. The locals moved out with the post office. The shelves at the corner store stand as tombstones marking the prices of items that once waited for hands to toss them in their basket. Spiders and the remains of their kills fill the fluorescent lights. The crows don’t even stop on the wires when they fly over.”

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Book:Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“My sadness is a thousand-foot well; gratitude is a rope keeping me from drowning.”

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Book:Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

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“I never thought I would feel lucky to have pain dripping from my pores, pain stuck to the pads of my fingers, to the bottoms of my feet, to have pain become the core of my identity in an instant, but here I am.”

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Book:Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“Hope is useless.” My voice drops. The mere word crawls beneath my skin, makes me wince at the sound. “It’s nearsighted and blind to the fact that it always fails.”

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Book:I Fell in Love With Hope

Source: I Fell in Love With Hope

“When the first faint glow of dawn crept into the cave Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness”

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Book:2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Each being's entitled to her privacy, so I refused to let them see me. I was the only person on that tiny rock, and I made the world go dark.”

Book:This Is How You Lose the Time War

Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War

“The tears dried. And I felt lonely. I missed those voices. I missed the minds behind them. I wanted to be seen. That need dug into the heart of me. It felt good”

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Book:This Is How You Lose the Time War

Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War

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Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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