Raoden

“The cowboy's last thought before death: he is a boy standing on these feet, his small arms tight around a slander waist, he and his mother dancing in a gray living room on a gray afternoon and his mother smiles, and her smile is a lie.”
― Andy Davidson;Chris Orton;Andrew Orton, In the Valley of the Sun

“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.”
― Andy Davidson;Chris Orton;Andrew Orton, In the Valley of the Sun

“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“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.”
― Andy Davidson;Chris Orton;Andrew Orton, In the Valley of the Sun