18 Quotes by Lili Wilkinson


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    Our blood stains the red dirt under my feet, and the thought of leaving it behind makes my heart ache.

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    Ripples of sunset dance towards our feet, swirling into the colours from the graffiti, reflected on brown water.

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    For a long time, there was grief. It pulled me down into suffocating darkness, and kept me anchored there. I went through the motions. I turned up at school. I ate food and watched TV and took algebra tests. But I didn't feel anything. It was easier that way.

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    I had to get out, back out into the darkness, the soft velvety night where adventures could be had and things could grow.

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    Pink was for girls.Girly girls who wore flavored lip gloss and read magazines and talked on the phone lying on their perfect, lacy bedspreads with their feet in the air. Girls who spent six months looking for the perfect dress to wear to the school formal.Girls who liked boys.

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