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"No matter how beautiful the pasture, it is the freedom to choose that makes the difference between a life lived and a life had."

He knows the number of stars in the sky for each night one of his kids was born 😭

"I wanted to see if no still meant something" SHE'S ELEVEN.

"He always called her Fray. Like she was an unraveling thing."

"Promise you'll never save me"

OUCH

SHES NINE

"What do I do with all of these wars in my head?"
"Anytime you feel like there's a war you gotta escape from, just let me know and we'll go hunt rocks together.We'll talk about their size,their colors,and all the ways they're beautiful and special. We'll talk about all of that until you feel like we've found some peace in the war. Arrows can't live forever. Bullets can't either. There is calm,even amidst the storms"

"I pretend because maybe if Dad can heal me here," he said, touching his body, "then maybe he can heal me here." He touched his head.

"Don't you think if that was the way it worked, you wouldn't need to pretend anymore?"

"Maybe it takes a while," he said. "Maybe it's like a rock. It has to be shaped."

Oh. This book is going to end me, isn't it?

Loving this already