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I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.

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

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  1. 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
  2. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. 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
  11. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. 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
  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. Buried and burned. Never find them. Never. Buried and buried. – Hunter Shea
  25. You’re paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. – KyungSook Shin
  26. Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! – Vera Nazarian
  27. Casinos invariably win because they push their money under the table, what remains over the table of their clients’ evaporates eventually! – Sandeep Sahajpal
  28. The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. – Dan Simmons
  29. People who believe in buried gods,’ said Louis.-˜Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?’-˜I’m Episcopalian. I believe in everything. – John Connolly
  30. When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B. – Joyce Rachelle
  31. We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world. – Debasish Mridha
  32. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  33. To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation. – Tan Twan Eng
  34. Be generous with your life – love deeply, honestly, and without reservation. – Carew Papritz
  35. Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. – John Calvin
  36. Find time to admire and appreciate the glittering lights on snowflakes. – Debasish Mridha
  37. Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. – K Hari Kumar
  38. Glittering tinsel,lights, glass balls, and candy canesdangle from pine trees. – Richelle E Goodrich
  39. The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn’s day. – Anna Paszkiewicz
  40. Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,Sweet is revenge–especially to women – George Gordon Byron

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