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“Just seems like all parents start out thinking their kids are a part of them, another mouth they’ve gotta make sure eats, another body they’ve gotta get dressed. And then one day, our parents look at us and notice we’re whole people. We’re
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“No one truly measured a mother's touch until they could no longer feel it. No one missed a mother's love until the well was depleted.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“He had been so sure of so much, but now he wasn't sure of anything anymore. He paused and met her eyes. If a poet were to describe them, he would say to look in her eyes was to see the sea's first glimpse of the sun, drinking its reflection with endless ripples. Or something like that.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“But the safi did not understand that freedom was sometimes a burden of its own.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“We're so quick to dismiss the sentiment as weak, but hearts beat for love, don't they? A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“It hadn't hurt, the day he had to cut out his own heart.”
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