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Chelsey Philpot

In the Empire, the Scholars are not allowed to read and, like so many bullies and power-seekers who hide behind ideologies to justify the terrible things they do, their oppressors wear masks. ‘An Ember in the Ashes’ suggests that such masks (literal or figurative) don’t work. Not forever, anyway. Masks only cover faces. It’s actions that show who we are.

actions, coming-of-age, masks, young-adult

Chelsey Philpot

We cannot 100 percent know the depth of another person’s heart. We cannot know the whys and whats of his soul.This idea could be sad, but it doesn’t have to be. Instead of rendering human beings powerless, it could render them more compassionate. Knowing that the stranger who just bumped you in the hall or that the awkward loner who sits behind you in class each have a story, makes it easier to chose kindness — again, again, and again.

compassion, humanity, kindness

Chelsey Philpot

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

Chelsey Philpot

I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can’t write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

dance, inspiration, writing

Chelsey Philpot

The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

nostalgia, summer, summertime, time, young

Chelsey Philpot

Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

inspirational, love, memory

Chelsey Philpot

Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

grief, loss, love

Chelsey Philpot

Before that night, I didn’t grasp that the shadows that sometimes crossed her face weren’t momentary clouds passing in front of the sun. Her deep silences were more than daydreams. And her habit of standing with her arms wrapped around her ribs was a way of holding herself together.I didn’t get there must be balance.She couldn’t hold so much life, light and joy without also containing their opposites.

balance, charlotte-ryder, darkness, julia-buchanan, light

Chelsey Philpot

I’m sorry,’ I whispered. I didn’t know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.

family, life, life-lessons, love

Chelsey Philpot

So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.

fantasy, idealism, idolize, perfection, self, self-confidence

Chelsey Philpot

This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.

heartbreak, life, love, romance

Chelsey Philpot

The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.

feeling, fragility, happiness, moments, mood