Amanda

“He swooped in and saved me at a point in my life when I desperately needed not to be alone, but gratitude and love are not the same thing.”
― Nicole Baart, Everything We Didn't Say

“Prentiss had learned from Landry that the language of grief was often nothing more than silence...For so long Landry had been the focus of his dreams, his world, and Prentiss felt there was a selfishness in his brother's sudden absence, as though rather than truly dying, Landry had been set free, only to leave Prentiss in the horror of living without the very person who had made doing so worthwhile.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

“...perhaps that was the great ill of the world, that those prone to evil were left untouched by guilt to a degree so vast that they might sleep through a storm, while better men, conscience-stained men, lay awake as though that very storm persisted unyieldingly in the furthest reaches of their soul.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

“Society made exceptions in matters of great beauty.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water