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Next time, you’ll tell someone before they move in that you’re going to be raising sharks.”
“Is it life,” he counters, “if there is never death to balance it? Or is its brevity what makes it beautiful?” The words spill out in such a practiced way, she’s sure he’s made the point before.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Some people keep their heart tucked so deep, they hardly know it’s there. But you, you have always worn it like a second skin. Open to the world. You feel it all. The love and pain. The joy and hope and sorrow. It will make your life harder, but it will also make it beautiful.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“It's a lie, you know, that you only get one story.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“The world will try to make you small. It will tell you to be modest, and meek. But the world is wrong. You should get to feel and love and live as boldly as you want.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Born restless, her father used to say. Which was fine for a son, but bad for a daughter.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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