There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.

—Michael Meade

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Ancient peoples invented rites of passage in part to break the spell of childhood and move the initiate from the mother's lap to the lap of the world. To this day, a person must dismantle the spell of childhood or fail to find their place in life.

—Michael Meade

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The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

The heart does not always make sense. It wants what it wants, even if what it desires does not want it back.

—Amber Lynn Natusch in Fractured

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I don't want a taste of something I can never have.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

I never stopped loving you. I wanted to. It would have been easier. But I can't turn it off with a switch.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

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