

“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change — most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink — are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become.”
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“People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.”
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“To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.”
― Skin
― Skin

“Words are ways we add up breath, counting stress and syllable with our exacting musical knack that takes us farther and farther from zero.”
― A Year With Rumi
― A Year With Rumi
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