“Don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides.”
“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“No matter if you tried to do what was best. No matter if your innermost self whispers, ‘I am not as you say!’—how other people think of you determines who you are.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“Everything I said was taken from me and altered until the story wasn’t my own.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“Heavenly Father, forgive me my sins. Forgive me my weakness and fear. Help me to fight my cowardice. Strengthen my ability to withstand the sight of suffering, so that I might do Your work in relieving those who endure it. -Toti”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
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