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“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
― Five Feet Apart
― Five Feet Apart
“Today, she had let herself be bathed in a promise to give her son the hope she lacked, hope for a place beyond this thin life where the boy would see his father again and sickness did not separate sons from fathers or wives from husbands. But in truth, she thought this all to be a cruel lie, and she knew this river could easily drown her and damn her if she let herself be swept along in its currents.”
― In the Valley of the Sun
― In the Valley of the Sun
“And when the night was not gone yet, the creature Rue left him, and he lay awake shivering and reckoning all through the lonely hours with the choices before him, none of which, in the days to come, would seem like choices at all.”
― In the Valley of the Sun
― In the Valley of the Sun
“Secrets, she thought, are almost always sins. Otherwise, why keep them?”
― In the Valley of the Sun
― In the Valley of the Sun
“He's alone. He's got a mother but she's up thereand he's down here, and down here, he's alone. Travis touched the hilt of his knife. He drew his Ka-Bar from its scabbard and turned the blade. There was a dark thing in the boy, born in a dark shed, a sadness too big for one so small. Travis remembered the lonely smell of moldering canvas in his own father's shed. Gasoline and grease. He wondered if one day the boy would ever look in a mirror and see a stranger staring back.”
― In the Valley of the Sun
― In the Valley of the Sun
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