Melissa Chunn
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To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it
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“How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for”
― The Last Thing He Told Me
― The Last Thing He Told Me
“The door to Jackson’s opens and a man staggers out. He crab-walks away from them, along the pavement until he hits a lamp post. He clings to it, waiting until his legs agree to listen to orders. Confident he has reached an entente cordiale with his knees, he straightens up, watching his rebel legs to see if the truce holds. It does, but only for standing. The moment he attempts a step he is swept around the corner like a trawlerman thrown from a deck in a storm.”
― The Long Drop
― The Long Drop
“And he’ll beat you, beat you, beat you
And he’ll beat you all to pap
And he’ll eat you, eat you, eat you
Every morsel snap snap snap! English Lullaby”
― A Walk Among the Tombstones
And he’ll beat you all to pap
And he’ll eat you, eat you, eat you
Every morsel snap snap snap! English Lullaby”
― A Walk Among the Tombstones
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It’s more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been. Home. When you weren’t sure you’d ever get to have one.”
― The Last Thing He Told Me
― The Last Thing He Told Me
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