“I might not be a threat, but I could become one.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“I hope you weren’t looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― The Last of the Savages
― The Last of the Savages
“You move forward, and when you falter, you get up. And when you can't, you let us carry you. You let me carry you.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
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