“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
“Well, I would catch you, Dena, but it seems we’re going down together.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“You make even the stars envious,” I repeat softly, leaning toward her. “Because one day—far from now—you will be up there beside them, outshining every single one.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“I wonder if I’ll be able to watch over her when I get to wherever Death is taking me.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
“If darkness is the absence of light, then that is what I am when she is not around. And I wonder how I’ve stumbled this long without her to guide me.”
― Powerful
― Powerful
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