Never-Contented Things by Porter, Sarah -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Part One: Ksenia Adderley

How Could I Leave Josh Behind? We’d Never Seen Them Before What Was I Supposed to Do? We Need to Be Happy While We Can I’m a Stranger Here Myself They Might Not Find Their Way Home Again You Could Put It Like That What a Little Savage You Once Were! Because We Weren’t Really Home Before Tiny, Sparkly Hands It Was What We Had to Give Do Tell

Part Two: Lexi Holden

Every Skein of Light An Orchestra of Breaths and Bells A Velvety, Minuscule Death Not a Single One of Them Reaches My Voice Just Enough of the Truth My Voice Becomes Vapor Once You’ve Been to Nowhere Now We’re All Living Under a Spell

Part Three: Joshua Korensky

The Only Way to Break Them Open The Land of Not Too Late So What’s to Trust? Why Did You Send Me to Die? What Is a Grave, If Not a Doorway? Please Don’t Think This Is Me As Any Artist Does

Part Four: Lexi Holden

The Particular Shapes of Her Silence Nothing Essential Is Safe Minds Slap Shut Like Books Even Dreams Consume There Are Lies That Have Some Truth in Them Nothing of Great Matter to Her A Vast and Hollow Darkness

Part Five: Unselle

But Still Enduring

Part Six: Ksenia Adderley

That Makes Two of Us They Stole Me from Myself They Didn’t Make Everything This Ground I’m Lying On My Version of Love I’ll Set My Own Criteria I’m Not Going to Let You Take It Back How Can Everything Become Nothing? I Paid Our Rent What Else Would I Do? The Whole Bright and Whirling World Whatever Heart You Can Make for Yourself

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