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“What are the words that can solder cracked pride?”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“For a long time, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis