The only difference between a choke and a hug was an open pathway. Which was why Vic had taught herself to hold her breath. And then life had become a series of uninterrupted embraces.
“The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
“Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
“When we love someone, we’re held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
“Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
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