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Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
Isobelle Carmody
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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
Isobelle Carmody -
If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.
Isobelle Carmody -
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
Isobelle Carmody -
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
Isobelle Carmody -
Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
Isobelle Carmody