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"But now he understands that words are another kind of tool, another way to shape the world."

"There were no good answers anymore, only choices about how to carry what felt unbearable."

"Is that what war is? Something hidden but rising, quiet only until it's not?"

"I rather like seeing children read," he said. "It gives me hope."

"There must be more to life than dulling the ache of it."

"But what endures unchanged through fire might just carry the most powerful secret of all - that which seems like an ending is instead a beginning."