“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”
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“Growing up, Moss thought of her mother as just another Guntown drunk, a wreck, but now she saw her mother was wounded, a perspective that came with age, when everyone settled into the same slew of adulthood, when everyone was wounded and could more easily overlook the wounds of others.”
― The Gone World
― The Gone World
“I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.”
― Side Jobs
― Side Jobs
“The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they’re just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future.”
― The Invasion of the Tearling
― The Invasion of the Tearling
“Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.”
― Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
― Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
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