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"His abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark."
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"Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there."
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"I've seen a lot of stuff, maybe I've seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I've seen what they can do, how evil they can be, I've seen the Holocaust and I've seen Jonestown, I've seen the Vietnam War and I've seen Hiroshima, I've seen the Chernobyl disaster, I've seen the World Trade Center attack, I've been alive too long, over a hundred years is a long time to be alive, Alecto sighed, staring at the cigarette he was holding."
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"I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real."
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"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."
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"If the most connected we've ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we'll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives."
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"I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college."
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"As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth."
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"Wait-a-minute!Reality kicked in after marking its spot `position vacant' for the short and pleasant while. He groaned mournfully as he found himself staring at the inside of his own eyelids. The first thing that occurred to him was the terrible bone-wracking pain running up and down his spine. Pain? No, curiously enough. It was the memory of it that seemed to hurt so much. Maybe that's what scared him. Or maybe it was the creaking of the ship around him."
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"Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse."
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"An Indian's wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save."
Wealth
"All I owe the world is my art."
Art
"But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?"
Opportunity
"When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."
Gratitude
"Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN."
War
"And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God."
Faith
"If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?"
Satire
"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
Purpose
"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."
Addiction
"More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years."
Aging
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