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"None of this is real, my dear. Not this house, not this conversation, not those shoes you're wearing-which are several years out of style if you're trying to reacclimatize yourself to the ways of your peers, and are not proper mourning shoes if you're trying to hold fast to your recent past-and not either one of us. 'Real' is a four-letter-word, and I'll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
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"Even the world's greatest actor cannot fake an erection."
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"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
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"To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place."
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"If you desire to be financially wealthy but don't know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming."
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"You're here, I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys."
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"Hey!' I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. 'I was talking to him!'Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. 'No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters."
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"We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly..."
Relationship
"Doors opened everywhere. Maybe one day, the children of this world who had gone to that world to save themselves would see a door that didn't fit right with the walls around it, something with a doorknob made of a moon, or a knocker that winked. Maybe they could still go home."
Fantasy
"But sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out."
Fate
"After months - after years - of chaos and life-threatening situations and people stabbing me for no good reason, we'd somehow managed to find a moment to breathe. That didn't just deserve to be enjoyed. It deserved to be celebrated, held up as proof that the world was a good place and didn't actually need to be destroyed in order for me to have a nap."
Happiness
"There's always time for tea."
Peace
"Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it."
Nature
"Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives."
Fear
"Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that."
Time
"This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?"
Truth
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