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101 " The Mermaid Song”: “We there did espy a fair pretty maid, With a comb and a glass in her hand, her hand, her hand, With a comb and a glass in her hand. "
― Barbara O'Neal , When We Believed in Mermaids
102 " Jandals,” I repeat. “Like sandals?” “Japanese sandals. "
103 " It’s a wordless, seemingly endless wave of emotion, and I’m helpless against it. It rolls out of me, unattached to any one thing but all the things, everything. "
104 " didn’t have much of a chest, but everything else made up "
105 " Guilt wants erasing in a big bottle of ice-cold vodka. Regret asks for amends, "
106 " Miguel "
107 " Oh, I do not want to like him so much. Lust, yes. Not like. I don’t know him at all, but in this gesture I feel the heart of a lion, big and inclusive and wise. It tips open the closed doors of my life. "
108 " For a moment, he only looks at me. “Your quest is powerful. You needn’t apologize for the space it takes.” He covers the hand he’s holding with his other. “That you take. You are important too. Not only your sister. "
109 " Hobo blinks. "
110 " I didn’t realize it then, you know, but knowing what I know now, he must have been abused physically.” It makes my skin hurt to think of it, of his small gentle self, so heartbreakingly beautiful, being punched or cut or burned. "
111 " Many things, but I have learned to just carry one book, or my bag starts to weigh too much for me to lift! "
112 " do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other. "
113 " but fairy tales are dark for a reason. Kids know that life isn’t all sweetness and light. They know. "
114 " In the whisper of the waves, I hear your name In the caress of the sunlight, I feel your lips In the hands of the wind, I feel your touch Everywhere, in everything, there you are I will not forget you, sweet love. "
115 " the flow of humanity passing by reminds me that my problems, however big they might seem at the moment, are dew in an ocean. "
116 " Love is not always destructive, "
117 " I do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other. "
118 " the TV is on, playing the evening news. For a moment, I look at all the disasters happening around the world, and my drama seems ridiculous and small, all of my own doing. But it’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain. "
119 " I am alive. I am human. I am loved. "
120 " you can fall in love with someone by looking into their eyes for thirty seconds. "