Speaking about what happened gives weight to the bad memories, making them feel raw and recent.
“Sometimes, Mags, a couple can go through something so terrible that not even love can fix it.”
― Home Before Dark
― Home Before Dark
“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it--the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Comfort always dispels rage more quickly than shouting does.
[the Rev. Jack Brooks]”
― The Burning Girls
[the Rev. Jack Brooks]”
― The Burning Girls
“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Guilt is a little like grief. A cancer of the soul. They both hollow you out from the inside. But while you can learn to live with grief, guilt only grows as the years go by, spreading its tumourous tentacles.”
― The Burning Girls
― The Burning Girls
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