Daniel Jose Older Quotes

#1. We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic is in that connection, community, Sierra. We are interdependent.

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#2. I'm alive and capable of love, and love is a fucking river. It's never ending and it flows through us, all around us, keeps us alive and decadent, fierce from struggle and genuine in our vulnerability. I

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#3. That's the song for the herbs?" "Mm-hmm." "It makes them happy?" "It makes them work," the woman says. "Prayer puts the world to work. The action you take is your expression of intent. The world listens. And then works. Go

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#4. Her voice carried the voices of a hundred thousand souls in it; a whole history of resistance and rage moved with her.

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#5. A corpuscule's like an empty body with an angry-ass spirit shoved in it. Rude as fuck thing to do to someone if you ask me.

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#6. The reading room for suckas," Dr. Tennessee says. "The back stacks where all the good shit hiding.

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#7. But it was hard work making suggestions and not blatant declarations with her ever-changing Puerto Rican body.

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#8. An unexpected ripple has been torn in their meticulously cultivated ghetto paradise, and I'm the mothafuckin' pebble.

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#9. Probably, all these words would tumble out, these stupid, useless words I've been carrying everywhere like a bouquet of delicate, beautiful, stupid, useless flowers.

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#10. computer-majiggies,

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#11. It's really nice to meet you, sir. You drive like a wild maniac, and I respect that.

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#12. It's a whole other kind of sorcery - pulling the pieces of a shattered heart back together, and it's one I know nothing about.

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#13. I love Carlos like the weird, half-dead son I never particularly wanted

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#14. The rain keeps starting and stopping like an anxious lover who doesn't know if he should spend the night.

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#15. Juniper . . . pets . . . cupcakes. How can one even put those two things in the same . . . It doesn't matter.

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#16. You can't tiptoe toward justice. You can't walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone's home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in.

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#17. that true sheet-grabbing throb that emanated from the sweat-soaked room on the third floor.

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#18. Where's Bennie?" Nydia said. Bennie was Sierra's best friend, and it wasn't like her to miss a practice. "She at some Super Saiyan dorkmeister overnight camp upstate for the week," Sierra said. "Learning how to make robots or computers or planets or something.

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#19. I was thinking that we could spli - " "We're not splitting up," Bennie whispered hoarsely.

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#20. I thought on it and Cane can roll with us . . . . but he definitely gotta be a sidekick. . . . That's the rule, people. Sicka white dudes being all primary in shit. He can be the sidekick or the nosey neighbor. That's it.

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#21. Death always wins. Life is just a blip. It's a shiny, hyperactive blip, but a blip nonetheless, and no matter how strong or wily or rich a life may be, the slippery slope always leads to the great nothing.

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#22. hipsters are basically yuppies with tighter pants and bigger glasses.

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#23. A scar isn't about the injury, it's about the healing.

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#24. And it sounds like two tectonic plates are getting it on somewhere beneath us

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#25. When the Council's icy fingers slide the photo of Sasha's wry smile and sleepy eyes across the table, I will nod my head like I always do. Then I will find her. I will honor the dying wish of her brother, whom I murdered, and protect her from myself. And then I will ask her out.

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