The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSONSometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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