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“We're weaving in between trees, careful not to disturb, on a mission. We mean no trouble. There are so many of us, the lonely souls. All of us who helped build this. Those who will watch it grow. Those we've lost. We march on together. Climbing, falling, soaring. Trying to get closer to the center of everything. Closer to ourselves. Closer to each other. Closer to something true.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“There are a million and ten things from the subatomic to the cosmic that can rattle my nerve on a daily basis.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“Fact: I once did a search for "how to make friends" and I clicked on one of the videos that came up and I swear I didn't realize until the very end that I was watching a car commercial.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“She never found words hard; her whole life she had always had a pert answer or a gentle insult or a funny riposte to anything the villagers said to her. Now she found that pulling them from her heart - and not her mind - felt like dragging something jagged and reluctant out of a well.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time