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“You were made for this, Jude." Some of the clients would say that to him as well- You were born for this- and as much as he hated it, he also knew that they were right. He was born for this. He had been born, and left, and found, and used as he had been intended to be used.”
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“He cut himself more and more; he began cutting around the scars themselves so that he could actually remove wedges of flesh, each piece topped with a silvery sheen of scar tissue, but it didn't help, not enough.”
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“I've always felt like...like I was going to lose something. As beautiful as the world is...”
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“And yet he sometimes wondered if he could ever love anyone as much as he loved Jude. It was the fact of him, of course, but also the utter comfort of life with him, of having someone who had known him for so long and who could be relied upon to always take him as exactly who he was on that particular day.”
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“She'd told me that, once-- that she had always felt loss approaching. I was still in middle school, and there was no way I could really have understood what she meant, but those words had sent shivers through my soul.”
― The Place Promised in Our Early Days
― The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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