They always have ways to find me—email, social media—at least before I finally gave in and deleted my profiles, tired of sifting through the panicked direct messages of clients in their lowest moments. I am always on, always ready, a
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“They say if you want something bad enough you’ll end up making a god out of it. But what if all I ever wanted was my life, Ma?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“You want me to trust you? Save her. Really save her. It’s going to mean telling her what you are. It will cost you emotionally."
"Did it cost you to save me?"
There was a long silence. The mist shimmered darkly in the trees. The rain sighed.
Bryde said finally, "You are the most expensive thing I have ever saved.”
― Call Down the Hawk
"Did it cost you to save me?"
There was a long silence. The mist shimmered darkly in the trees. The rain sighed.
Bryde said finally, "You are the most expensive thing I have ever saved.”
― Call Down the Hawk
“I did not know then what I know now: to be an American boy, and then an American boy with a gun, is to move from one end of a cage to another.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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