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1. "Poetry?"..."No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head." ~ Mary E Pearson

2. "AwarenessThere is a dark place.A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words.I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die.But I can't.The darkness and silence go on forever.It is not a dream.I don't dream." ~ Mary E. Pearson

3. "Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says.I don't tell him that I don't know what time is." ~ Mary E. Pearson

4. "...and time becomes a forgotten detail." ~ Mary E. Pearson

5. "Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?" ~ Mary E. Pearson

6. "I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)" ~ Mary E. Pearson

7. "I used to be someone." ~ Mary E. Pearson

8. "Tell me who I am. (29)" ~ Mary E. Pearson

9. "When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?" ~ Mary E. Pearson

10. "ChoiceI needed it like I needed air.Bit no one could hear me. No one could listen. No words. No sound.No voice.I couldn't even dream myself away.Choices were made.None of them mine.At first I wondered if it was hell.And then I knew it was." ~ Mary E. Pearson

11. "Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill." ~ Mary E. Pearson

12. "it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets" ~ Mary E. Pearson

13. "How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button?" ~ Mary E. Pearson

14. "I shan't make a fuss over the babe's father." ~ Mary E. Pearson

15. "The thought weaves into her unexpectedly, as so many thoughts do, time again. How do you make the remembering stop?" ~ Mary E. Pearson

16. "Or maybe I'm a masochist and I like girls who are as annoying as hell! Don't try to analyze me, Jenna. I am what I am." ~ Mary E. Pearson

17. "...like it better, nothing like sunshine dried right into your clothes." ~ Mary E. Pearson

18. "abuelita speaks no english. she doesn't need to, zoe thinks. her smile fills and communicates so much more than the empty, half-said words of zoe's life." ~ Mary E. Pearson

19. "but she still burns. she is on fire with need. burning that goes deeper than her skin, etched deeply, maybe in her soul, and there seems to be nothing for it, no balm, save inching her arms up to hold herself and wishin the arms weren't her own." ~ Mary E. Pearson

20. "A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four—but very nicely weighted—and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts." ~ Mary E. Pearson

21. "My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later." ~ Mary E. Pearson

22. "Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between." ~ Mary E. Pearson

23. "I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me." ~ Mary E. Pearson

24. "Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected." ~ Mary E. Pearson

25. "And all I want is to hold her and make the rest of the world go away." ~ Mary E. Pearson

26. "Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? (pg. 113)" ~ Mary E. Pearson

27. "Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop." ~ Mary E. Pearson

28. "I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something." ~ Mary E. Pearson

29. "It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough." ~ Mary E. Pearson

30. "The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way." ~ Mary E. Pearson

31. "What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have." ~ Mary E. Pearson

32. "Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are." ~ Mary E. Pearson

33. "The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it." ~ Mary E. Pearson

34. "How can you be sure?""I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist.""Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?" ~ Mary E. Pearson

35. "I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow." ~ Mary E. Pearson

36. "But I am more than a name. More than they tell me" ~ Mary E. Pearson

37. "Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?" ~ Mary E. Pearson

38. "I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead." ~ Mary E. Pearson

39. "... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up" ~ Mary E. Pearson

40. "I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white." ~ Mary E. Pearson

41. "It wears on a person, you know, always having to be perfect. You know that one day something will happen,some problem that won't fit into a neat little project. Something that can't be fixed. Then where does that leave you?"She doesn't hesitate. "You become mortal like the rest of us," she says." ~ Mary E. Pearson

42. "Eyes don't breath. I know that much. But her eyes look breathless" ~ Mary E. Pearson

43. "And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think. (pg. 108)" ~ Mary E. Pearson

44. "The angels threw glitter up there, just for you, Zoe, Daddy had told her. They celebrated almost as much as I did the day you were born. Every time you look up there you remember how special you are - so special the angels threw a big party." ~ Mary E. Pearson

45. "People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~" ~ Mary E. Pearson

46. "she whispers it aloud, 'lorelei.' the sound makes her ache, makes the word even more beautiful, even more real." ~ Mary E. Pearson

47. "as a child she thought if she could just pull away the fence they would turn back into the beautiful horses they really were and escape to the old plains. she had hope in that power" ~ Mary E. Pearson

48. "Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should." ~ Mary E. Pearson

49. "Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity." ~ Mary E. Pearson

50. "The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others." ~ Mary E. Pearson

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