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“And they ate supper before they said grace...Oh, um...she moved into his house, stayed awhile, and then they got married.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can’t handle.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“I’m no expert, but I know one thing about anger—it’s like alcohol. At some point, if you pour enough in there, it’s coming back up. You may think you’ve built up a tolerance, but the truth is this—no man, not even Unc, can bury it so deep that it doesn’t erupt at some point like Vesuvius and splatter your soul across the earth.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
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