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21 " If you ever get that free, you need to reel yourself in, because the edges of the world are as sharp as glass, and if you ride over them you're going to get torn up. "
― , Wild Awake
22 " I want to be good for the world — pure and true and wise and somehow saintly, somehow illuminated. I want to have experienced something that has changed me, and so I act changed. "
23 " Beautiful, I think to myself as I float back into sleep, my whole body thrumming with a tender, exhausted state of exhilaration. Beside me, Skunk's body is warm under his T-shirt. The last thing I see before falling asleep is the Kali painting on Skunk's wall. Her blue-gold body is draped in equal parts flowers and severed heads - as if beauty and horror were interchangeable and what matters most is trusting in the dance. "
24 " I remember the day when my seventh-grade teacher called my parents to tell them I’d been crying in the bathrooms at lunchtime after Sukey died—how disappointed Dad was that I was using Sukey’s death as an excuse to get attention from my teachers; how delicately Mom suggested that Sukey would have wanted me to be happy; my humiliation at letting them down. "
25 " Whatever it is, it can’t possibly be as important as the Italian Concerto. Now let’s get to work.”We work for three and a half hell-bent hours, until the keys are literally smeared with blood and my mind has been bleached to a glorious blankness, a lunar eclipse of the soul. The music is a castle I conjure around myself, a fortress of notes no feeling can storm. "
26 " The city at night is a playground, and we are a pack of kids riding its swings upside down. "
27 " When she died, it was like my house burned down. "