43 Quotes About She-had-some-horses
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MoonlightI know when the sun is in Chinabecause the night shining other-lightcrawls into my bed. She is moon.Her eyes slit and yellow she is the lastone out of a dingy bar in Albuquerque—Fourth Street, or from similar avenuesin Hong Kong. Where someone else has alsoawakened, the night thrown back and asked,'where is the moon, my lover'?And from here I always answer in my dreaming,'the last time I saw her was in the armsof another sky'.
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I am alwaysin danger.
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These are the ones who escapeafter the last hurt is turned inward;they are the most dangerous ones.
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Because who would believethe fantastic and terrible story of all of our survivalthose who were never meant to survive?
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I release you, fear, because you holdthese scenes in front of me and I was bornwith eyes that can never close.
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You savored each story they told you,and rememberedthe way the stars entered your bloodat birth.
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You took me onceto an older part of earthI'd never seen—where monsters were bornand killed.They sacrificed everythingand nothingfor a taste of thislife.
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Oh, you have choked me, but I gave you the leash.You have gutted me but I gave you the knife.You have devoured me, but I laid myself across the fire.
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But what captured him was a light in the riverfolding open and openblood, heart and stonesshimmering like the Milky Way.
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