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I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

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Stories can save us.

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Stories are for joining the past to the future.

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Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

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What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

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…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to k...more

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Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

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That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.