Esme Sullivan was the kind of woman who kept an acorn on every windowsill to ward off bad spirits, and boiled old shoes in a Dutch oven to guard against snakes coming into the yard. When her cat sat with its back to the fire, she prepared
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“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Eli the Good
― Eli the Good
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.”
― A Parchment of Leaves
― A Parchment of Leaves
“I don’t know what I believe, Hazel. I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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