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He’d hoped the new clothes would give him confidence, but he felt like a hedgehog in a tuxedo.
“Your battle is over. Live your life, be happy, love deeply.”
― In the Absence of Light
― In the Absence of Light
“Pain, fear, humiliation, it turned his beautiful dark eyes into a window of hell. It was the first glimpse I’d had of the prison he lived in. A captive to the uncontrollable tics ravaging his body. I think it was then I understood the solace he found in the light. Just as it blinded the world to seeing what was there, it blinded Morgan. It tucked him away from the things he could not control and the things reminding him he was different. How he would never truly fit in. How he existed on the edge between here and wherever it was he went when the light spoke to him.”
― In the Absence of Light
― In the Absence of Light
“Well, last time I checked, if you don’t eat, you starve to death. Same thing happens when you don’t love, only you starve to death on the inside instead of the outside. Either way you die. So seems to me eat’n and love’n have a lot more in common than you think.”
― In the Absence of Light
― In the Absence of Light
“Morgan may be autistic, but he is a normal man with a mental condition, not a mental condition who is a man.”
― In the Absence of Light
― In the Absence of Light
“Wait,” I cleared my throat. “He eats the cows?”
“What else would he do with them?” Morgan put his empty brownie plate with the rest of the trash.
“I thought he had the cows because of his wife.”
“He does.”
“Then how can he eat them?”
“What do you think they were going to do with the first cow?”
“I don’t know, I just thought, well… I don’t know what I thought, but it sure wasn’t grinding them up and making burgers. That just seems wrong.”
“Why?”
“They remind him of his wife.”
“And she ran a restaurant. C’mon, Grant, this is real life, not a Hallmark movie. Man’s gotta eat.”
― In the Absence of Light
“What else would he do with them?” Morgan put his empty brownie plate with the rest of the trash.
“I thought he had the cows because of his wife.”
“He does.”
“Then how can he eat them?”
“What do you think they were going to do with the first cow?”
“I don’t know, I just thought, well… I don’t know what I thought, but it sure wasn’t grinding them up and making burgers. That just seems wrong.”
“Why?”
“They remind him of his wife.”
“And she ran a restaurant. C’mon, Grant, this is real life, not a Hallmark movie. Man’s gotta eat.”
― In the Absence of Light
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