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“Kids know the things they love weren't here yesterday, and they're smart enough to see how that can easily mean those things won't be here tomorrow.”
― Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
― Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
“It was perfect. Everything here was perfect, except for me, and so they made me leave instead of changing enough to let me be perfect, too.”
― Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
― Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
“Will
It does not impress me that I have
a mind.
Chance amuses me.
Coincidence makes me laugh
out loud.
Fate weighs me down
too heavy.
When I can't bear not seeing
you another second,
I send out my
will;
when it brings us face to
face, there's an invisible power
I respect!”
― Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems First Edition 1973
It does not impress me that I have
a mind.
Chance amuses me.
Coincidence makes me laugh
out loud.
Fate weighs me down
too heavy.
When I can't bear not seeing
you another second,
I send out my
will;
when it brings us face to
face, there's an invisible power
I respect!”
― Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems First Edition 1973
“Lives are lived and lost in “almost.”
― Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
― Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
“What had she been doing? {...] Generally, obsessively, licking her wounds. What a funny turn of phrase, she thought. Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria. But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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