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"I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream."
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"You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams."

"Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination."

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"Without challenge we become too comfortable with life."

"When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land."

"Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical."

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"I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined."

"I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was."

"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."

"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am."

"Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."
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