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It was easier to let people go than to admit you wanted them in your life. At least that way you wouldn’t have to chance rejection.
“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
“Enough, she repeated to herself. What you have now, it will have to be enough.”
― The Love Hypothesis
― The Love Hypothesis
“When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had. It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Emifal Firdaant,' I say to him.
'You've said that before. What does it mean?'
I cannot quite look at him when I say it. 'May death claim me first.'
'Ah, no, my love.' He gathers me close. 'You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.'
With that, he closes his eyes, but I cannot sleep. I stare up at the peak of the tent and listen to the rain drum down on the canvas. Emifal Firdaant, I beg the skies. Emifal Firdaant.”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
'You've said that before. What does it mean?'
I cannot quite look at him when I say it. 'May death claim me first.'
'Ah, no, my love.' He gathers me close. 'You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.'
With that, he closes his eyes, but I cannot sleep. I stare up at the peak of the tent and listen to the rain drum down on the canvas. Emifal Firdaant, I beg the skies. Emifal Firdaant.”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
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