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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

Margaret Atwood

we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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Good Light Stick Stories
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Art Light Shine
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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Body Embroider Eye Leg
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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Hurt Intention Need Someone
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.
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Analysis Benefit Cost Nature Running
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Fear Lying Night
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Century Novelist Once Time Upon
I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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Awkward Boys Girl

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