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Everything That Comes To Us Is A Blessing Or A Test. That’s All You Need To Know In This Life…just The Certainty That God’s Got His Eye On You, That He Knows What You Are Made Of, What You Need To Grow On. Why,questioning’s A Sin, It’s Pointless. He Will Show You Your Path In His Own Good Time. And Long As I Remember That, I’m Fine.

I Claimed Myself And Remade My Life.

Every Kid I Meet Who's A Reader Has Got Something Like That, Their Fantasy World. And Science Fiction Is The Best, Especially For Girls Because It's The One Place Where You Can Do The Forbidden.

I Fell Into Shame Like A Suicide Throws Herself Into A River. (253)

It Has Seemed To Me That Literature, As I Meant It, Was Embattled, That It Was Increasingly Difficult To Find Writing Doing What I Thought Literature Should Do - Which Was Simply To Push People Into Changing Their Ideas About The World, And To Go Further, To Encourage Us In The Work Of Changing The World, To Making It More Just And More Truly Human.