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Quote from Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption

A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.

Quote from Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that – much to my surprise- his does as well.

Quote from Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption

He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he’ll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.

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Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin

Quote from Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.

Quote from Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption

But I stayed up thinking about how I’ve been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.

Quote from Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption

But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.

Quote from Zack Love, Anissa’s Redemption

She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn’t cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.

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