“Never tell a child that something it’s too hard”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
“You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a song. It is a plea.”
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
“Have you ever dreamt of someone who’s gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now.”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
“But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
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