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But, really, grief left a hole in you, and while you healed around the hole, you never didn't have it. A piece of you was gone. You couldn't heal something that wasn't there.
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When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.
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People will survive anything for their children.
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I saw Death itself. It was a feral thing, made of smoke and shadow. It was hollow and empty. And hungry. Starving.
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Remember that time I punched you in front of my father’s grave?” I ask in a sentimental voice.
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Well, sometimes home is a person.
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It's not knowing that's killing me. Not knowing if there's a chance that something can change, not knowing if there's hope at all.
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But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
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I can get closer.
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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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We’re so close we could touch. All it would take is for me to reach out my hand. But neither of us makes a move.
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I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
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I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.
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It wasn't that he called me a freak. It was the way he said it. Like he really meant it. Like he believed it.
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And it is everything I have longed for, and everything that breaks my heart.
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Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.
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When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness.
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Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.
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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
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As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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Failure makes the success worth it.
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I'll always come back to you.