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“I love the dead because we cannot let each other down anymore. I cannot fail you. I am thankful for a leaving that is permanent. It is one thing to be haunted by a life gone and another to be haunted by a life that spins on, happily, without you.”

Sometimes a book just finds you at the exact perfect time, and in a package you never would’ve expected

“Let some of my beloved elders tell it, and prayer is the only cloak that can never be torn from the shoulders of anyone it is placed upon. And so, made from the lips of a person who loves us, we’re all one good prayer from being royals, or something close.”