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Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.

Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. My father insisted I eat red meat. ‘You’ll lose your brain without food,’ he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  9. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  11. It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  15. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  24. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
  25. Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent. – Toni Morrison
  26. Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had been left to go stale over a prolonged period. – Adam Maxwell
  27. My gramps is a lot like you. No sense of adventure. All he does is sit in his urn… – Cleo Peitsche
  28. For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister – Helen Dunmore
  29. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. – GA Aiken
  30. If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow? – Jennifer McMahon
  31. Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. – Sarah Addison Allen
  32. Moriré besando a Simon Snow. Simon Snow morirá besándome. – Rainbow Rowell
  33. I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret. – Kate Messner
  34. Later in the winter I’d tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different. – Marie Landry
  35. He who kneels the most, stands the best. – Dwight L Moody
  36. You cannot fall or stumble while on your kneels – Ikechukwu Joseph
  37. The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels. – Dr J Otis Yoder
  38. Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well. – Shane Snow
  39. god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water. – Sushil Singh
  40. The waves formed in your heart will make you fall in Love.The waves formed in your mind will make you fall from Life. – Saga Valsalan

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