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“This is an example of the purity of children, yes? They live each moment, caring only about the present. Perhaps our hearts become corrupt when we focus too much on the future, on plans and desired outcomes, rather than being grateful for what we have now.”
― James Klise, The Art of Secrets

“Opportunities—how we clung to that word! It is a dreamer’s word.”
― James Klise, The Art of Secrets

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“A simplification, as Honey understood it, in regard to a woman’s rage. That a tragic history could only lead to further tragedy—it was absurd, pigheaded even. Violence spawned violence spawned violence, while on the other side of the concrete wall a rose was a rose was a rose. Why must these two equations be kept apart? Why not violence to violence to roses?”
― Victor Lodato, Honey