I don’t say that sometimes I long to be with my kids, chasing them through a field, at the same time as I long for intense solitude where I can be blessedly alone without anyone touching me or needing me, so that I can work and feel like a
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“Though I knew she loved me”
― The Sins of Silas
― The Sins of Silas
“Humans were not good at taming their feelings. They felt everything so rudely, right out in the open, with no awareness of how their reactions might affect those with finer senses.”
― Brimstone
― Brimstone
“That we don’t have to end up with regrets,” he says. “That if we really care about something, we can decide to hold on to it.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“Go,” I said. “Life’s too short for unexplored avenues”
― The Sins of Silas
― The Sins of Silas
“I realized that there really were no winners in war—just those who suffered a little less.”
― The Sins of Silas
― The Sins of Silas
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