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What she couldn't understand was people who didn't imagine everything.
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How they became friends was no great mystery, but now they remained so, braided together beyond their shared college quarters, this transcended the usual alchemy of optimism and obligation that kept friendships intact, kept people from fading into other categories: old friend, college friend, just someone I once knew. None of the four would ever be just anything to the others...
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That's who they were to one another—the ones willing to reach without dwelling on the risk. The ones who would enter the room when it reeked of despair. The ones who would not turn away.
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It was not possible to rescue anyone, she knew by now, but you could recognize her. You couldsee what she showed you, flinch and keep looking, let her find in your own face the truth.
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It was not possible to rescue anyone, she knew by now, but you could recognize her. You could see what she showed you, flinch and keep looking, let her find in your own face the truth.
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Everyone around her was just between escaping something and not knowing what might come for them next. All they could do was find those people whose hands they would hold fast when they ran.
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On Loving a child: "It wasn't a new key for the same song. It wasn't a new speed in the same lane. It wasn't an adjective she could name." - Lainey
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He hadn't birthed a baby, he didn't know, how Elizabeth had torn out of her, left her gaping, bloody, raw, how every creation is an act of destruction, how the bite was borne out of desire to show Elizabeth how deep her love for her ran, how vast, how endless.
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It was still so new, to be able to cause harm in both directions like this, to disappoint as a daughter, but as a daughter who was a mother herself now, too.
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