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“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Allyza’s 2025 Year in Books
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