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“They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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