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“Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I dont anymore.”
“Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”
“When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.”
“Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.”
“That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.”
“For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we ...”
“Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I'd crack a smile he'd keep the joke going , like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that'd echo around the whole forest and make a...”
“I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any c...”
“You know, when I was little, my dad told me that if I misbehaved, he'd send me to live with a witch who ate children.''Really?'She nods. 'I was so afraid of the witch. Feelings are magnified when y...”
“In that moment, I feel the Prophet's canvas ceiling lift away from my head, walls flying off me, and a pressure I've never put into words hisses somewhere at the back of my mind as the size of the ...”
“Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. N...”
