Shawna Thompson

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“So you hardened yourself and hoped the fear couldn’t touch you. But once you’ve turned yourself to stone, love can’t reach you, either.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

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“He had learned that having someone to care for was the same as being cared for by someone else.”
― Ballard, J G

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“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

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“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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“Each had taken up the truths they had trained themselves to see, drinking anger and hate or loneliness and despair as eagerly as the summer-parched prairie drank the rain. I ain’t fool enough to think I’m wise, exactly, but I have learned one scrap of wisdom, at least: whatever a body expects their life to be, that’s what they’ll make of it in the end.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

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