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“Reaching and reached. Cassia”
“I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)”
“I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.”
“We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.”
“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives”
“...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.”
“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between deaths footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the sp...”
“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really arehow impossible to reach.”
“Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that."I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing--it canno...”
“She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.”
“Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the s...”
“They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.”
“I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist. I want to do ...”
“Inside me are the real things that give me strengthmy thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.”
“The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you ...”
“The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.”
“Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel”
“No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.”
“Good-bye, I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the choices of our fathers and mothers in our hands and when we cling on or let them s...”
“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me? I ask.We thought he might, my mother says.Why didnt you stop him?We didnt want to take away your choices, my mother says.But Grandfather never d...”
