The Paper Swan
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*Skye* EIGHT
“Skye?” He seemed hypnotized by the rapid rise and fall of my chest.
I swallowed.
“Don’t play with scorpions unless you intend to get stung. We’re harsh and predatory and full of venom.”
Damian, çok değişiksin ya
*Esteban* SIXTEEN
“Will you teach me to be brave and shoot the bad guys?”
“It’s all fucked up, Rafael. There are no good guys or bad guys. Everyone has a reason.”
*Skye* SIX
Vengeance only begets more vengeance, more chaos, more darkness. Vengeance abducts us and imprisons us and mutilates us, and we suffer and suffer until we unravel its probing parasitic suckers from around us.
“If you close your eyes and think about someone you love, what comes back is not a precise list of hair color, eye color, or the things that go on their driver’s license. Rather, it’s the bits and pieces that seep through your consciousness, the things about them that you never realized you were storing away.”
*Skye* NINE
Family is family. Friends aren’t forever. Everything will break. People say goodbye. Get too close and you get hurt.
*Skye* THIRTY-FIVE
We are sand and rock and water and sky, anchors on ships and sails in the wind. We are a journey to a destination that shifts every time we dream or fall or leap or weep. We are stars with flaws that still sparkle and shine. We will always strive, always want, always have more questions than answers, but there are moments like these, full of magic and contentment, when souls get a glimpse of the divine and quite simply, lose their breath.
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EPILOGUE
You don’t always get the treasure by holding on. Sometimes the magic happens when you let go.
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