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1 " Expansive allies can be drawn in to your story to be magnets, drivers, amplifiers capable of broadcasting whatever you decide. Love pulses can be dialed up to ensure you wake up clearer, better able to notice an option previously obscured by your investment in a particular limitation or dingy expectation. "
― Laurie Perez , The Power of Amie Martine (The Amie Series, #2)
2 " He’d scorned the Earth, but she kept spinning anyway. "
3 " For a moment, he felt like he was sucked into an aileron roll, stopped dead halfway through and dangled sideways above the ground with his left ear facing sky.“Are you alright?” Kate asked.“Yes.” He rubbed his hands through his hair, then changed his mind. “No. I’m not alright at all. "
4 " Why do we romanticize the virgin spaces? Land where no one’s walked or built or puked or fought over its uses? Land never once in its existence beholden to anyone or anything, forming timelessly, inured of us. We want it to seduce the cluttered world of today out from under us. "
5 " You know all of this already. I’m teaching the Hoopoe that she has wings. "
6 " Each cell within its atom is a raw, formless idea that exists beyond mortality. It is the wild state constantly creating your world, the one word in a collective equation that is you becoming written from nothing into something — and so it knows, ultimately, annihilation is an essential instrument of becoming new to all that can be known. "
7 " The more I let go, the more electric I become, resonating across tides and currents, touching the sweetest gems encircling me, calling me home. The water in which I’m suspended charges me like a battery that runs on lightning. "
8 " Kingdoms rise and fall.I can be steady. "
9 " This is catharsis. The act taps in, meets them where they are. It’s confusing, hollow. So incredibly sad. And so we’ll stay inside it a while. Not picking it apart. Not interrogating the hungry pain body, but just confirming. Yes. This place feels exactly this way. This is where you are. I get it. "
10 " Fitting into the equation of humanity, we knead the poignancy of compassion and milk the headiness of creativity into ever more substantive knowing, pushing the collective, universal consciousness to expand moment by moment, molecule by molecule. "
11 " Pregnancy sucks the nightlife out of you. "
12 " Physicality’s a cage. And a liberation.The cells I’ll fill in, they’re magnificent, burgeoning with aliveness! I’m dialed into them like a station on a radio transmitting constantly. First faint and distant, but growing, amassing, volumizing the very idea of a person this body aims to harbor. Glowing like the universe, always growing. Each new cell increases my momentum, tightening the tether. "
13 " Orpheus never got the memo that loss is a ticket to resilience, not some sewer of revenge in which to wallow, marinating selfish, hellbent purpose for centuries on end. "
14 " Time’s irrelevant from his perspective; he could pursue this for centuries and never age or harvest a single, necessary epiphany. "
15 " Currents of air and sea are vulnerable to my breathing. Metaphors of mountain ranges seem tiny compared to all I contain. "
16 " Frivolous diamonds expect you to bend and squint and seek refraction from greedy elusive facets keepingall their vibrant secrets hiddenin the hard chisel of war-born crystal. "
17 " Compassion, in its essence, is neutral. It’s holistic that way, and powerful because it yields a much wider perspective free of judgment or stress of any kind. We use it all the time in our work the way we’re always studying humanity intensely — always walking in someone else’s shoes, feeling the seams in their socks, wounds and elations in their souls. "