We rode to Miller’s Pond holding our spears like knights with lances. People we passed watched in curiosity, but no one stopped us. It was like that day had already been written. Like we were about to do what we were destined to do.
Great paragraph describing the sense of the inexorable progression of some events in life, viewed in hindsight.
“even as he knew what kind of parent he’d become, the kind that used to make him gag as recently as two months ago. The ones who blithely assumed their online friends were gluttons for punishment. Here’s my baby lying on his back! And here’s my baby also lying on his back! And how about this one: blurry baby on his back! Good God, the vanity of it all, the epic self-centeredness. He knew all this, and still he uploaded eleven pictures of Brian.”
― The Changeling
― The Changeling
“People call us witches,” Cal said quickly. She grabbed Apollo’s hand. “But maybe what they’re really saying is that we were women who did things that seemed impossible. You remember those old stories about mothers who could lift cars when their kids were trapped underneath? I think of it like that. When you have to save the one you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we’ll do for the ones we love.”
― The Changeling
― The Changeling
“Children sniff out secrets better than the NSA.”
― The Changeling
― The Changeling
“Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.”
― No Gentle Giant
― No Gentle Giant
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