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I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of ...more

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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

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In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

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I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

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Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

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We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real...more

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I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "w...more

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Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If w...more

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What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies th...more

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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom ...more

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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

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All writing is rewriting.

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the ...more