"But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life, it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own."

Emotions, Happiness, Life, Hope, Identity

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"But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life, it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own."

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"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."

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"I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye."

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"Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs?""Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?""No. But maybe rituals""Drugs might be better."

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