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“Whatever my path, I have faith I will end up where I need to be.”
“I lost my family, he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.”
“Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat...”
“I trust you. Those are the last words my father said before he left. That means that every decision I make, I would have to question myself whether it was the right one. I can picture him, expectat...”
“I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and ...”
“Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.”
“I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.”
“Oda once said that when you speak excessively, it isn't necessarily communicating, Jimmi says as he hunches over, resting his elbows on his knees. He yawns and doesn't cover his mouth.What does tha...”
“When I go to describe something as remarkable as what I saw that day, I could only say it was a place of dreams. The water is crystalline clear, a mixture of opalescent colors and frosted with whit...”
“And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try. He looks off. There can be falseness in trying to do something t...”
“Haven't you noticed most of your fairy tales take place in the woods? a man a few feet from me says. He stutters and lets a belch escape him. That's why we're out here. We were hoping Jimmi would b...”
“Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.”
“I begin to cry as my walls of my resolve break down. I don't know how long I can hold on. The pain is horrid and I curl into myself wrestling with a wish to die and a wish to live. Both have their ...”
“If you're brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.”
“Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.”
“You have such faith,” he tells me. “Let it be bigger than your fears.”
“Since the beginning of time there was always stories like this,” he replies. “As children we reveled in the dream that there was a place out there that was different from the one we lived in.”
“The darkness is no place to be in times like this.”
“Jimmi manages a laugh that makes my skin crawl. “Do you really think what you read in those books is true? Sure, some of it may be but have you ever actually paid attention to it? It's all false se...”
“Why would they lie to us?”“Because deep down, we're all afraid of having peace. Because deep down we know we're all poisoned. We're more afraid of ourselves than we are of others. In that thinking,...”