Wakenhyrst
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she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to
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“you see something that’s injured, and you want to fix it. But sometimes you can’t. Fix things, I mean.”
― Frank and Red
― Frank and Red
“As is a tale, so is a life. Not in how long it is, but how good it is.”
― Frank and Red
― Frank and Red
“let’s look at your highlights, let’s look at your best bits? Here’s the thing, Frankie . . . You were my best bits. You and our boy.”
― Frank and Red
― Frank and Red
“You don’t need a parachute to skydive once.’ That’s what he was thinking about: that falling in love with someone, and allowing yourself to do so, was like falling without a parachute. And that’s okay when it’s the love of your life, because you only intend to skydive once.”
― Frank and Red
― Frank and Red
“The thing about terminal illness is that it is a plane crash in slow motion. It begins with warning lights in the cockpit: a cough, tiredness, a lack of appetite, sometimes spidery handwriting across a quiz sheet. And then you get a diagnosis and lose control. And then everybody prays and cries, and waits to crash into a mountain.”
― Frank and Red
― Frank and Red
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