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“The priest told my parents that God had taken my sister's soul to heaven, but he forgot to mention that Caoimhe had taken my soul with her. I knew she had.
There was a piece of me in the ground with her. I could feel it.”
― Chloe Walsh, Releasing 10

“How much of her life had she spent in this moment, waiting for someone else to decide something conclusive about her?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“So maybe it's the cosmicness of it, or maybe it's the way his mouth feels against mine-like some sort of soul resuscitation, like Sam Penny is a heart-stretch put on the planet to reinstill faith back into mankind so we have something worthwhile to write the poems about.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“Try to make it sound like having too much history with Magnolia Parks isn’t the mounted deer I’ll hang in the hallway of who I am, like loving her isn’t the first thing you see when you walk through the door of me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home