R.J. Cole > Quotes

“That’s the thing no one tells you about grief, boy, it doesn’t shrink. You just build a life around it, the way a tree grows around a stone, and after a while, the stone is still there, but the tree is bigger, and the stone is part of its shape.”
― R.J. Cole, The Enchanted Workshop

“But forgiveness is not forgetting. And it requires you to stop. Completely. Permanently.” “I have,” Linden said.”
― R.J. Cole, The Enchanted Workshop