“Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
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