“Trauma doesn’t decrease with company, but it does grow easier to work through when you know someone else understands.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“This was what it took for you to find your manhood?”
“It was never lost,” he said flatly. “You simply couldn’t recognize it, because I wasn’t you. I wasn’t big and harsh. I was me.”
― Ship of Magic
“It was never lost,” he said flatly. “You simply couldn’t recognize it, because I wasn’t you. I wasn’t big and harsh. I was me.”
― Ship of Magic
“Words deserted Wintrow. He stared at his father and floundered through thoughts, trying to find some common ground where he could begin reasoning with him. He could not. Despite the blood bond between them, this man was a stranger, and his beliefs were so utterly different from all Wintrow had embraced that he felt no hope of reaching him.”
― Ship of Magic
― Ship of Magic
“Plus, here’s the thing. A kiss doesn’t need to be good to be valuable. It doesn’t serve any real purpose. It’s valued solely because of the person you share it with.
Things only have the value we give to them. And likewise, actions can be worth whatever we decide them to be worth.
And so, to these two, that kiss was priceless.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Things only have the value we give to them. And likewise, actions can be worth whatever we decide them to be worth.
And so, to these two, that kiss was priceless.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“It’s said that everything you eat, even the air you breathe, becomes part of you. The axi that make up the matter you take in come to make up you instead. I, however, find that the moments we take into our souls as memories are far more important than what we eat. We need those moments as surely as the air, and they linger. Potent. Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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