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"How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing.
Without the sadness, he has nothing left."

"He would look without speaking because he felt his father didn't have any more words, that even the ones he said weren't really there. He intuited without being certain that his father's words were about to break, that they were held together by the thinnest of transparent threads."

"I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton."