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21 " A creature can be heartbreakingly powerful and loving while also being a destroyer of worlds. "
― Kira Jane Buxton , Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
22 " When you have the power to stand up to oppression, you must. "
23 " All the winged, even fungus gnats, know that you cannot fly if you're carrying too much weight with you. It's a well-known adage, actually: "The light of heart is free to fly. "
24 " Every singe one of us, from amoeba to blue whale to the tenacious bloom that dares to dream of tomorrow, have their own destiny-fulfilling journey as long as their minds and hearts are open. "
25 " Big Jim was not a crow, but he knew about the loyalty of murder, which makes him as much crow as any I’d met. “Crows before hoes,” said Big Jim, pretending he wasn’t drowning as I sat on his shoulder and collected his tears. "
26 " Her name translated as “Survivor,” but she told me she didn’t like it much. I asked her why and she said because she is a female and all females are survivors so it was massively redundant. "
27 " We are more powerful when we work together because we look out for one another by being one. That is the code of murder. "
28 " So there we were. A rejected crow with an identity crisis partnering a bloodhound with the IQ of boiled pudding. We were perhaps the most pathetic excuse for an attempted murder on the face of the earth. "
29 " I’m not sure why everyone hates opossums so much; they may look like someone shaved the buttocks of a poodle and taught it to talk through it’s asshole, but they are generally pretty likable critters. "
30 " The light of heart is free to fly. "
31 " And though Nature is tough, she is always conspiring for your success, encouraging you to evolve. You can even hear her if you listen carefully. "
32 " Butterflies live short lives because they have mastered the art of living. They serve to pass it on with luminous bursts of joy, bright flickers from the other side. "
33 " There would be no more hot dog-eating contests or NASCAR or picnics in the park or Cheetos or America's Funniest Home Videos or revving truck engines or books or children laughing or fetch with a stick or i{hone updates or shopping or electrical jobs or songs or genius inventions or drunken dancing or Fireball whiskey or snow globes or wedding vows or ugly ties or Christmas hugs or...families "
34 " I cannot recommend this to you enough: find something that you believe in, right down deep in the depths of your silvery plumage, and then throw your heart at it, blood and valves and veins and all. "
35 " Trust, it turned out, was a very beautiful and fragile thing with a taste like wild raspberries and experienced only by the very brave. "
36 " we will fall in love with each moment, singing to a moon that has loved us since we were stars. "
37 " Everything talks, you just have to be willing to listen. "
38 " I explained birthday cake as a spongy mattress of awesome with hidden rivers of delicious goo to celebrate having stayed alive a whole year. "
39 " There were, sadly, some things that were just impossible to explain, like the plot of Inception and CrossFit. "
40 " And within some amount of time that I can't be sure of because I still didn't really understand time and none of the clocks worked anymore, I got an answer. "