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And you? Now that I have disco...

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

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Two hundred miles from the sur...

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, th

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This is where the story starts...

This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we

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Yes, the stories are dangerous...

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

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Six books my mother didn't wa...

Six books my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books Ђ' that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

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I was the place where you anch...

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

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I go on writing so that I will...

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

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When I fell in love it was as ...

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

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I had been taught to look for ...

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

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[Fiction and poetry] are medic...

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

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Books and doors are the same t...

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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Nothing can be forgotten. Noth...

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

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There's no such thing as effor...

There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

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I know our feelings can be so ...

I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies Ђ' unconscious strategies Ђ' to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too Ђ' sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling Ђ' and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer

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There is still a popular fanta...

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say 'I think' we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

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She was a monster, but she was...

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

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How many of us want any of us ...

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

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What should I do about the wil...

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

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It's better to think of my lif...

It's better to think of my life like thatЂ' part miracle, part madness. It's better if I accept that I can't control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

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Happy ending are only a pause....

Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

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