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"He had felt when they made him a Silent Brother as if he had been cut open and all things inside him ripped out. Only, there was that which they could not take away."

"How far? asked Jem. Will smiled. “Need you ask? I will go with you as far as I possibly may.”" These two, I swear to god 😭

"I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made." Will can't shut up about Jem, Jem can't stop complimenting Will.

"Henry Fairchild used all kinds of ingenious contraptions to get about, but at family breakfasts he had only an ordinary chair. Not that it mattered. He simply launched himself from the chair in his haste to get to Charlotte, and fell heavily on the ground." This broke me

"He rose early to help Cook with the baking. Cook had arthritis, and Matthew’s mama had asked if she was not getting along in years and wishing to retire, but Cook did not wish to retire and nobody had to know if Matthew lent a hand in the early morning. Besides, Matthew liked to see his papa and mama and even Charles eating breakfast he had prepared." Oh this sweet child