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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a b...more

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The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but...more

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Potential has a shelf life.

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Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to.

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Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

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You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

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(...) everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting fo...more

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You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

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But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and ...more

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to be...more

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We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, w...more