“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”
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“She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
“Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
“People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them will have to float around in the water for a bit, then they’ll slowly release. Others never open up at all, no matter what sort of hot water they’re in.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
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