“When you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“And I think,” she continues, “that those who venture, traveling through the water toward their song, must be very lonely, too. I think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?”
― Honey Girl
― Honey Girl
“Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“You are still just a human. Just a small thing that has to find its way like everyone else in this enormous world. It will not be simple, Grace Porter, and it will not be easy. You may have to make a lot of noise, and the universe's silence can be oppressive and thick. But you want them to hear you, and they will. So do not, not even for one second, stop making noise."
"And if they don't listen?"
Professor MacMillan Shrugs. "Don't given them that choice.”
― Honey Girl
"And if they don't listen?"
Professor MacMillan Shrugs. "Don't given them that choice.”
― Honey Girl
“You can try, she guesses. You can tear yourself apart and rebuild from stratch, bring yourself to every corner of the map, sew a new self from the scraps of a thousand other people and places. You can try to escape to fill a different shape. But at the end of the day, there's a place at the foot of the bed where your shoes hit the floor, and it's the same. It's always the same.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
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