“Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. You love so much bigger than yourself, bigger than everything. I can’t believe how lucky I am to even witness it—to be the one who gets to have it, and so much of it, is beyond luck and feels like fate. Catholic God made me to be the person you write those things about. I’ll say five Hail Marys. Muchas gracias, Santa Maria.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“Silence is an extinct word.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“Intimacy was allowed as long as it revealed nothing truthful. Which wasn’t very intimate at all.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“Historically, the law was kinder to those who forged brushstrokes of all kinds instead of pen marks of any kind.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
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