‘I want to kiss Mama goodbye,’ she said. ‘Don’t,’ said Danny harshly. ‘If you do, you’ll stay.’
“He hoped wherever he was going that there'd still be the sun and the moon and the stars. He'd spent a majority of his life with his head turned down. It seemed only fair that eternity would allow him to raise his face toward the sky.”
― Under the Whispering Door
― Under the Whispering Door
“Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― Under the Whispering Door
― Under the Whispering Door
“In all of his worst nightmares, she’s dying. She’s fading away in his arms, helpless and whimpering, while hot, dark blood spills over his fingers.
This, he tells her.
He doesn’t tell her that his hand holds the blade.”
― The Drowning Faith
This, he tells her.
He doesn’t tell her that his hand holds the blade.”
― The Drowning Faith
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