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Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

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I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

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Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

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Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

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Kij Johnson

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Born: January 20, 1960 (age 65)
Bio: Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She is a faculty member at the University of Kansas.
Known for:
  1. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)
  2. The Fox Woman (2000)
  3. Fudoki (2003)
  4. At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories (2012)
  5. The Man Who Bridged the Mist (2011)

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