Difference between revisions of "Maya/Contacts"
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|<i>If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?</i> <br>---Jodi Picoult, <i>Nineteen Minutes</i> | |<i>If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?</i> <br>---Jodi Picoult, <i>Nineteen Minutes</i> | ||
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|Dangerous. Very, very dangerous. And unsettling. See also: dangerous. | |Dangerous. Very, very dangerous. And unsettling. See also: dangerous. | ||
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| − | |A | + | |A bright-burning kindred spirit, which is the last thing I would have expected to find in one of *them*... And a generous soul, sorely needed. |
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| − | | | + | |Hijabi hurricane, child prodigy, and I seriously think I'm going grey. This must be some of what it's like to have kids. Although I don't think I was that insane as a teenager. Maybe we can get her parents to hire a freakin' bodyguard... |
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| + | |So young, to be that scarred. I never thought I had mothering urges, but between Jack and Shadi, they're awake and alive now. If only I could keep them out of danger. But there's no sheltering a warrior, even if he's ridiculously young to be fighting this war. I just wish I could offer healing for that wounded spirit. | ||
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| + | |I hope she's enough of a leader to keep them together. I think so. And at least I don't want to jump her. | ||
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|Kindness from a stranger. Not only a stranger, but one of <i>them</i>. I wonder if I'll ever see her again. | |Kindness from a stranger. Not only a stranger, but one of <i>them</i>. I wonder if I'll ever see her again. | ||
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| + | |To be watched. An android with an awakened soul? She's just... unnerving. | ||
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Revision as of 21:43, 20 November 2016
“Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”
---Veronica Roth
| Victor | If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? ---Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes |
| Zach | What would I do without your smart mouth? |
| Skylar | To make you feel my love... |
| Ben | Dangerous. Very, very dangerous. And unsettling. See also: dangerous. |
| Riley | A bright-burning kindred spirit, which is the last thing I would have expected to find in one of *them*... And a generous soul, sorely needed. |
| Shadi | Hijabi hurricane, child prodigy, and I seriously think I'm going grey. This must be some of what it's like to have kids. Although I don't think I was that insane as a teenager. Maybe we can get her parents to hire a freakin' bodyguard... |
| The kid | So young, to be that scarred. I never thought I had mothering urges, but between Jack and Shadi, they're awake and alive now. If only I could keep them out of danger. But there's no sheltering a warrior, even if he's ridiculously young to be fighting this war. I just wish I could offer healing for that wounded spirit. |
| Sera | I hope she's enough of a leader to keep them together. I think so. And at least I don't want to jump her. |
| Thandi | Kindness from a stranger. Not only a stranger, but one of them. I wonder if I'll ever see her again. |
| Rei | To be watched. An android with an awakened soul? She's just... unnerving. |
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
---Henry Miller
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
---Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
---Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
---Emily Dickinson
