Her Hebrew had improved, but she noticed she was still thinking in German.
“And the books! She’d never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn’t alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“Leni heard her mother start to cry, and somehow that made it worse, as if her tears watered this ugliness, made it grow.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“A thing can be true and not the truth, now shush.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“Leni shook her head, feeling a familiar sadness creep in. She could never tell him how it felt to live with a dad who scared you sometimes and a mother who loved him too much and make him prove how much he loved her in dangerous ways. Like flirting.
These were Leni's secrets. Her burdens. She couldn't share them.
All this time, all these years, she'd dreamed of having a real friend, one who would tell her everything. How had she missed the obvious?
Leni couldn't have a real friend because she couldn't be one.”
― The Great Alone
These were Leni's secrets. Her burdens. She couldn't share them.
All this time, all these years, she'd dreamed of having a real friend, one who would tell her everything. How had she missed the obvious?
Leni couldn't have a real friend because she couldn't be one.”
― The Great Alone
“Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
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