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“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and it is there that my stomach leaps into my throat. Squatting just shy of the light and p...”
“She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.”
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hea...”
“Thats a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, Im going to fly in my Model-A1.People would much rather say, Get in my whirly-gig....”
“When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes s...”
“The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.”
“Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.”
“The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.”
“God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.”
“There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it this place, she decided, was called Smog City.”
“I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I fixed it up. Made it mine.”
“He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all foun...”
“Patches dont look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, its because youre...”
“The shadow self is what lies beneath the makeup. Its those ugly parts that you havent accepted about yourself. You hide those parts in the shadows until youre ready. Her face remained a haunting ca...”
“Because I am, just as you are you. We dont always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.”
“Theres nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems theres always something wrong with her.”
“Im afraid theyre not coming. Abby said fearfully. Our parents, our teachers everyone! Theyve disappeared. Thats it. Lights out, Shelly. Were on our own.”
“Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm. I can fix you if youre ever broken. ”
“Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.”
“She could spin it between her legs, skip with it, twirl it around her neck and transfer it from one arm to the other. Shelly hooped because she enjoyed it; it calmed her whenever she would have an ...”
