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They chafe against the very fact of you, the parents—against the judgment seeping out of you even while you’re busy impressing yourself with your own restraint.
“When you give Cal a hug, squeeze extra tight. That’s what I do with your father. He says I only know how to give bear hugs, and I want to”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“You know who apologizes? People who need to, for their own sake. People who are trying to do themselves a favor.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Skip would then collect the nickel and carry the book on his bicycle over to the next house, where he would leave it in the mailbox and put the flag up. At the drugstore, the four men shared their reactions and thoughts.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Therein, she thought, lies the unbearable solitude of a lie: you’re alone when you tell it, alone when you live it, alone when you try to dismantle it.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
“Over and over, she’d learned that what the dead most often conveyed was love and forgiveness. She could only conclude that these were the two most important things in the world—so important that people carried them into the afterlife for the sole purpose of being able to hand them back to the living.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
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