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“Then I’d turn around and walk the path back to the palace, carrying the hope that my children and my children’s children would make something even better, that they’d carry with them the memory that we had tried our best to give them something like home.”
― Happy Land
― Happy Land
“Sometimes worries are a comfort, what connect you to another person.”
― Swift River
― Swift River
“I’ve been thinking about the fact that families split apart over one thing, but the thing that keeps them apart is something else entirely. Toss in guilt and shame and then the years stack up like bricks in a wall you can’t climb over.”
― Swift River
― Swift River
“You’re afraid the real thing won’t match up to your memories of it,” Ramesh said. “And you’re absolutely right. That place stopped existing the moment you left. Maybe it didn’t even exist at all. Memory has a way of smoothing and polishing edges.”
― Water Moon
― Water Moon
“patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Swift River
― Swift River
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