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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...more

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I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

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I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

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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...more

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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 am so, so alive.

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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.