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Shearwater

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    CHATPER ONE (LILIAH)If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin~~~I was all ...

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    Chapter Two (Lucas)If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can't give a ...

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    Chapter Three (Liliah)Look into my eyes and hear what I'm not saying, for my eyes speak louder than my voice ever will....~Unknown.~~~I silently watched as my math teacher wrote foreign ...

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    Chapter Four (Lucas)There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~ Don Delillo~~~The lucid sky painted the ...

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    Chapter Five (Liliah)Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd~~~I couldn’t help the tender smile that crept on the tip of my lips. The smudge of ranch on ...

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    Chapter Six (Lucas)If I was damned of body and soul,I know whose prayers would make me whole,mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.~Rudyard Kipling~~~A tornado of anger spun in my mind. ...

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    Chapter Seven (Liliah)Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love. ~ John LeCarre~~~I truthfully felt bad for leaving Luke home with Mom and ...

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    Chapter Eight (Lucas)"Through your embrace you speak a thousand words, without ever saying one." ~Unknown~~~My fingers drummed along the side of the couch. I licked the tip of my teeth. ...

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    Chapter Nine (Liliah)"Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks" ~Waqas Ahmad~~~The park was silent besides the short high pitched ...

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    Chapter Ten (Lucas)A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David ...

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    Chapter Eleven (Liliah)Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,But for another gives it ease,and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.~Blake, William~~~I twirled the spoon aro

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    ____________________________________________________________________________________Chapter Twelve (Lucas)The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend o

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    Chapter Thirteen (Liliah) “Never say I love you, if you don't really care- Never talk about feelings if they aren't really there- Never touch a life if you mean to ...

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    Chapter Fourteen (Lucas)“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” ~SenecaSix Years LaterThe sirens blared in my ears and my heart thundered inside my ribcage. I quickly spun

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    Chapter Fifteen (Liliah)Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~Marcus AureliusThe classical ...

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    I think...I forgot how to write. And this chapter is insanely dodgy. I knew what to write but had a hard time getting it all down. If you're wondering why ...

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    Chapter Seventeen (Liliah)“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.” ~Michel de Montaigne~~~I held the cup and looked at the tall doctor ...

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    Chapter One: LiliahIf the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. -Letty Cottin Pogrebin~~~Waiting was something ...

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    Chapter Two: LucasAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die in one life before ...

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I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X