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He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
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The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
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I wish I still had my grandmother’s ring so I could give it to her the right way. Except now, he was also thinking, Please God let me not blow this, let this not be a huge mistake.
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Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
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His heart skidded like a dirt bike on black ice as he watched her disappear.
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“It’s okay,” Patricia told the bird. “I’ve got you. It’s okay.
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The paper about gravity tunneling
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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Knowledge is justice
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Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you.
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The trap that can be ignored is no trap.
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All the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.