Living is a paragraph, constantly rewritten. It is Grown-Up Magic. Children are heartless; their parents hold them still, squirming and shouting, until a heart can get going in their little lawless wilderness. Teenagers crash their hearts into every hard and thrilling thing to see what will give and what will hold. And Grown-Ups, when they are very good, when they are very lucky, and very brave, and their wishes are sharp as scissors, when they are in the fullness of their strength, use their hearts to start their story over again. - Catherynne Valente
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Autodidact. Folk artist. Compulsive diarist. Mama. Striving to embody big radical mystical love in each of my small daily encounters and to in every other wise make any simple or minute element of my life thoroughly meaningful.