The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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