--Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
“I had raised Zel wrong. I had raised a creative, curious child. I had let the child develop her own inclinations. I had clapped with pleasure at every new discovery, new talent. I had raised a child who could love easily and whom anyone could love back. Oh, what a terrible twist. I had raised a child in the best way I knew how, and it was that mistake that kept her from me now. I hold that child in a tower. The only one I love, the one I love more than life itself; for two years I have held that one in a stone room. And I live alone. I live the life I would have lived if I had never had Zel in the first place. Only it is far worse—for I know what I have lost.”
--Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
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“Desperate to explore, yet stuck here.”
—Ruth C. --I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by the editors of Smith Magazine “Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get—a cold, sick feeling deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again be quite the same person you were.”
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--Hero by Perry Moore “I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I’m not anymore.”
--Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt "Sleep my little babby-oh
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