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"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."

"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
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"What are the gifts given to we who live Below?'Long life, health, strength, and happiness.'What is the curse of those who live Above?'Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.'Is this fair?'It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below.'Then give thanks."

"So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant."

"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."

"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."

"It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel."

"No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been."

"But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it's not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me."
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