I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?
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Margaret Atwood
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Her own life is placid and satisfactory, but there is nothing much that can be said about happiness.

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There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly.

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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

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Potential has a shelf life.

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A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

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The Loneliness of the Military Historian

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Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.

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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

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This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

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The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

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She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.

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A truth should exist,

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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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