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“ love looks like dandelions in bloom. ” “ say this pain will pass. ” “ your soul , so soft and full of shuddering. ” “ they found your bones piled in the dark fern bushes. ” “ you’ve never been the same since. ” “ you were brought home but a part of you is still there. ” “ anything besides this great, terrible silence born of feeling unalive. ” “ you have returned. ” “ i have come for you. ” “ you are too blinding  , i don’t want to look. ” “ this is a dream from which i know i will wake. ” “ i will lend you my shoulders and my hands. ” “ i don’t have strength in me to touch anyone yet. ” “ i’ve kept you waiting for too long. ” “ let’s embrace as equals. ” “ we dream of moments like this. ” “ can you feel how your withered heart opens up? ” “ it’s ready to heal. ” “ you feel not like a human but like a piece of the wild , burning sky. ” “ close your eyes and catch snowflakes on your tongue. ” “ have you let go of the ails that anchor you yet? ” “ in a forest clearing we stand around the bonfire we built ourselves. ” “ your sorrows and my sorrows are ashes. ” “ my spine is softer now , but still strong. ” “ in the right kind of light , we look like sparrows. ” “ in the right kind of dark , our hipbones become hollows where angels rest. ” “ we must always risk crashing into the rough land so that we may kiss the clouds. ” “ you’re wild like a dream is wild and bright like a dream is bright. ” “ when we think awestruck , we mean you. ” “ when we think you , we mean liberated. ”  “ you become the rush of air under a blue jay’s wing. ” “ people who don’t know will try to tell you that it feels like a fist to the jaw. ” “ they don’t know the truth of it. ” “ oh , how beautiful you are. ” “ promise me you will always be shining like this. ” “ fleeing like a ghost afraid of the light any time someone speaks your name. ” “ you can be a comet tearing open the sky if you want. ” “ never let them drain the river of your soul. ” 

Emily Dickinson, from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson; “I Would Not Paint–A Picture,”

Naomi: I had never, in previous films, met someone who was so on my wavelength.

“ tonight, you’ll be the death of me. ”

Naomi Ackie photographed by Ramona Rosales for The New York Post (December 2019)

Finn and Jannah in The Rise of Skywalker

“It feels very grounded,” says Naomi Ackie, who’s making her Star Wars debut in Skywalker playing a character named Jannah, about whom she is allowed to say literally nothing. “There’s the kind of spectacular-ness, and the supernatural move-things-with-your-mind magic stuff, but then there’s also this really grounded, rugged nature where everything is distressed and old and kind of worn out and lived-in. And I think playing with those two ideas means that you get this feeling that it could almost be real. Like, in a galaxy far away, it could almost be the case that you could have this.” – Vanity Fair