Julia Green Quotes

#1. Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to find a pattern and a way to make sense out of the muddle and hurt.

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#2. Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

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#3. It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.

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#4. I pull out my notebook from my bag and open it. I read through all the pages I've written. It makes me feel more substantial, somehow. I do exist. I am me. This is the story of my heart.

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#5. Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.

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#6. Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

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#7. There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.

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#8. We have to find our own way to live, and to love. Don't ever let anyone else tell you how it should be for you.

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#9. Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.

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#10. This is how it happens, this is how you stop yourself feeling so much. You go cold, colder still with each disappointment, each betrayal until you find you've frozen over at the core of you and you stop feeling anything anymore.

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#11. There's this rushing sound, like white noise.
The sound of nothing.

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#12. You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

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#13. What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.

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#14. There is always that choice, the light or the dark

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#15. I don't believe in the white spectre-type of ghosts you get in stories, but what if ghosts are something else? Like memories somehow caught and trapped in time, released by being in certain places where things first happened.

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#16. But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

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