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“Maile looks skyward and says, “Bernie”—Jane’s breath catches at her mother’s name—“your girl is home at last.” “

that hurts so much

«Most of us will live long lives, with twists and turns and loves and losses. But with a natural disaster, it’s every loss you can imagine compressed and crystallized into one moment that changes you forever. You must endure the loss and rebuild.»

“After the tsunami, everything was harder than it needed to be. To have a commode, you needed to shovel a trench. To have a roof, you needed to build a house. To have a life of your own, well. Just be grateful you’re alive.”

send the tissues because i might cry

“ Her home island the last place she would have guessed, because it’s the first in her heart. Years ago, she had to drown it to bury it.”