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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.

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

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  1. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. The angels heralded the birth of the Savior, John the Baptist heralded the coming of the Savior, and we herald the gospel of the Savior. – Katy Kauffman
  6. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. 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
  9. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – 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 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
  16. 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
  17. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – 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. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. 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
  24. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  25. I crawled in a spirit-haunted placeMade wild by souls that moan and mourn;And Death leered by with mangled face -Ah God! I prayed, I prayed for dawn. – Arthur Newberry Choyce
  26. You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. – AJ Gordon
  27. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Dougl
  28. I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for. – WC Fields
  29. It isn’t chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons. – Margaret Atwood
  30. It is through us Christians that the world must know the love of the Savior – Sunday Adelaja
  31. But in this crowd, my blond ponytail stood out like a crescent moon in a midnight sky. – Kristin Bartley Lenz
  32. Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails. – Catherynne M Valente
  33. You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to ???? it. – Tina Fey
  34. foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon. – Michael Lewis
  35. She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved. – Thomm Quackenbush
  36. [T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. – Christopher Hitchens
  37. I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed. – Richard Matheson
  38. I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed. – Richard Matheson
  39. Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
  40. One man’s fool is just another man’s savior. – Anthony T Hincks

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