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“You know where the name hell came from.” He crossed his hands on his lap. “After I fell, I kept repeating to myself, God will forgive me. God will forgive me. Centuries of repeating this, I started to shorten it to He’ll forgive me. Then finally to one word, He’ll. He’ll. “Somewhere along the way, I lost that apostrophe and now it’s only Hell. But hidden in that one word is God will forgive me. God will forgive me. That is what is behind my door, you understand. A world of no apostrophes and, therefore, no hope.”
― The Summer That Melted Everything
― The Summer That Melted Everything
“I learned at that moment that the devil, the true one, is people...”
― The Summer that Melted Everything
― The Summer that Melted Everything
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one. It's unnatural, that reversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole again.”
― The Summer that Melted Everything
― The Summer that Melted Everything
“Being the devil made him important. Made him visible. And isn't that the biggest tragedy of all? When a boy has to be the devil in order to be significant?”
― The Summer that Melted Everything
― The Summer that Melted Everything
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