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“‘I’m not trying to fix her. I just wanted to be a safe place for her. Like someone else I know is for me.’

‘Safe.’ He balls his fist over his mouth, sucks in a rush, nodding. ‘And yet I said horrible things to you. I try to tend this good and right view about my life. But that doesn’t mean I always say the right thing.’”

“‘Abuela would’ve loved you.’ My storyteller and teamaker and the boy who could nick and knife my heart, just for living under another flag.”

~makes me think of~

“She would have loved you. Like I love you.”

“I know, I know what I should and shouldn’t feel. Like vegetables and vitamins, I know what’s good for me. But today I am going to love something just because I do. I’m going yo love a place so magical, even I could believe in the spells and potions of it….”