Ashe Vernon Quotes

#1. This is the story of how I never stopped running. This is the story of how,
when the wolves knocked, I met them at the door and I became the beast, instead.

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#2. I was a wolf, and they dressed me
in sheepskin

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#3. You are a language I am no longer fluent in
but still remember how to read.

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#4. But who buries the hatchet
and who buries the bodies?
And who says they're not
the same thing these days?

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#5. I am carving myself into a shape
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster.

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#6. What they don't tell you
about standing up for what you believe in
is that your feet will bruise
and your legs will ache.

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#7. There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be both.

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#8. Trouble is, I love better at a distance...

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#9. What they don't tell you about the illusion
is that I am as much lion as I am lion tamer.
And I got good at inflicting pain the same way I got good
at soothing it.
This, we call unfortunate,
but inevitable.

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