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When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull. I love Dirk, he is such a drama queen.


Ava Gardner

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you are capable of l...
AVA. i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.
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AVA. i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first, AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA. love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
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i've never been able to separat...
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because she did not know
how to be alone.
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you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
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until they love you so fiercely,
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AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
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and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer...
AVA. i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA. hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
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on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
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and you never stop falling.
AVA. you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.
AVA. i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
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we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
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you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
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we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
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i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thi...
AVA. the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurti...
AVA. i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
AVA everything i know about love
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the...
AVA i took it off.
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AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA. i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
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AVA RICHARDSON I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of c...
HOWARD GARDNER If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you wor...
GAYLE GARDNER In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it...
GARDNER DOZOIS When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train...
GARDNER DOZOIS I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty ...
GARDNER DOZOIS Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share...
GARDNER DOZOIS Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Micha...
GARDNER DOZOIS An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has pote...
GARDNER DOZOIS Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and...
CORY GARDNER We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with bor...
CORY GARDNER It's a family; lacrosse is not like any other sport, it's more of a way of life.
ADAM GARDNER I've been to a few of those and they've been really powerful.
ADAM GARDNER It's great not only talking about community service in theory but actually doing it.
ADAM GARDNER I never really thought of community service as a movement, but it is.
ADAM GARDNER Reverb is a nonprofit group my wife and I started a few years ago.
ADAM GARDNER New Hampshire has always been a good state.
ADAM GARDNER The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to pr...
CORY GARDNER All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of w...
JOHN GARDNER Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't...
ROBERT GARDNER If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
EDWARD GARDNER