“I always wondered how something could shine so bright, even while being swallowed in darkness.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“I had never known happiness before her. But if there is to be an after in which she doesn’t exist, I know I never will again.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“How he was my teacher and my partner in so many key life areas. My best friend and my family and my pillow and my quilt. Each of them are like bricks laid in the house I built to love him, but the point is really that house I built isn’t a monument to a love I used to have. It’s a house I want to live inside of still.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved. One, a friend. The other, unfinished. And that alone is what I took with me into the next life. But I watched, warm and bright and high above. Just as he promised.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“I wonder if I’ll be able to watch over her when I get to wherever Death is taking me.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
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