They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.
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They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.
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And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the boxes in my head, and I closed them up and I put ta...
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- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.
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Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival...
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Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.
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I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. Y...
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Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives i...
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The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.
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As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and brown and murky with the memory of the storm, so if...
