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“Children aren’t responsible for their “parents’ happiness, but they still try.”
(…)
“I hope you know I was never ashamed of you. I’m ashamed of myself.”
Kimkim wanted to explain everything he felt then, but he didn’t have enough words, so he said the biggest ones he knew:
“I love you and I believe in you, Dad.”
His dad would no doubt have said the same thing back if he knew how”

“Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you’ll do almost anything to make it stop.
“The army ought to find a way to use disappointment as a weapon,”

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”

Hay libros que a veces llegan a mi vida a abrazarme (tengo mis ojos bieeen aguados solo de escribir ese statement)

“Ted explains that children know hardly anything about their parents, even if they live with them their whole lives. Because all we know about them is as moms and dads, nothing about who they were before that. We never saw them young, when they still fantasized about all the things that could happen, instead of regretting all the things that never did”

“When someone is being chased, their hands go cold and their digestive system shuts down to save energy. It might sound remarkable, that the body is biologically prepared for something as unlikely as being chased, but of course the opposite is true. This is exactly what we’re built for. Throughout our entire existence we have been on the run, first from wild animals, then from each other.”

“The friends hardly recognized the artist’s face then, his smile was in the way. He led them shyly (..) to show them what he had painted on the wall, all three of them were so overwhelmed, they had to sit down on the grass. “Now you know,” Joar said happily.
“Know what?” the artist wondered
Joar leaned so close to the wall that he got paint on his eyelashes. “Now you know that you don’t want to die”

Este libro es ridículamente precioso

Yo creo que fácil puede ser el mejor libro que lea en el año

woaaah beautiful writing