“Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.”
― Second Glance
― Second Glance
“There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.”
― Second Glance
― Second Glance
“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
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