It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's tho…

Margaret Atwood
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It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. ✨ FaceBook post byMargaret Atwood from Jul 28, 2013
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Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time fold … ▶

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. ✨ FaceBook post byMargaret Atwood from Jul 28, 2013

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