All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
ADAM JOHNSONIn 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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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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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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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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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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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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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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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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