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“What did you say to him?”
“Imigh leat, amadán.”
“Yes. That.”
“I called him an idiot and told him to, uh . . .” He cleared his throat. “Sod off.”
“But he said thank you,” she said.
“Proof that he is, indeed, an idiot.

😳😂

“Humans are complex creatures. We want to belong, but we can’t stand to be the same. How in the world do you force equity on humankind, when we try at every turn to differentiate ourselves from each other?

In many ways, she was the most remarkably untangled human being he’d ever encountered. Complex but not complicated. Deep but not dark. It was as if she stood with her arms wide open and said, Here I am, and the world nodded and said, Yes, you are, and gave her a wide berth, not out of fear, but out of reverence.

“When a lake freezes over, it doesn’t freeze all the way to the bottom,” Dani said.
“What?”
“It just freezes on the surface. The ice can be really thick . . . but there’s always water moving below it. You feel something. It’s just below the ice,” she said softly.

It was exhausting being responsible for someone else’s happiness.

What a tragic prologue! 🥺