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If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the o...more

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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

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You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glo...more

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, B...more

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But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's n...more

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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find yo...more

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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more de...more

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Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matt...more

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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

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I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could neve...more