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“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies”
― Sara Biren, The Last Thing You Said

“If there's a feeling to coming home- something comforting and nostalgic: a mother's cooking, a family pet sleeping at the foot of the bed, an old hammock strung between trees in the yard- for me, it's this. It's Tyler. Knowing that there's someone who has seen all the different versions of me; watched as they stacked themselves away inside one another; knows all the choices I've made, the lies I've told, the things I've lost, and still.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“For the record, that about killed me, and it was a one-time thing that will never replay itself.' His lips pull into a one-sided grin. 'So next time you ask, be sure, because I won't deny you again.'
'Say you swear'
A laugh flies from him and he nudges my leg with his own, shaking his head as he turns back to his food. 'I swear.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear