Crystal Pistal
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Nick said, ‘I’ve found an old birth certificate in here, dated 1892. It’s for someone called Marion Tucker – Tucker was my mother’s maiden name – and this baby was the child of Cornelius and Mary Tucker: she died at the age of three weeks,
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I highlighted this passage because it's something my sister and I speak about often since our father passed and our Grandparents home that has been a solid beacon for us growing up was torn down. I have my Dads ashes, which means the world to me, but after I pass, my grandkids won't even have met him so they will probably go into the trash and it's just so wild to me how we each have such extensive stories and lives and after our grandkids, nobody will know any of that information.. or us.
“Even losing Ilana hadn’t prepared me for this. The sheer degree of fucking obsession that grief forces upon you. It took everything I had to force my mind to think about something other than him—it had exhausted me so completely.”
― The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
― The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
“Griffin had a habit of crisply punctuating each sentence with an open hand, like a conductor bearing down again and again over the same note.”
― Babel
― Babel
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