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I didn’t know our parents long enough to miss them in the same way Metias does. Whenever I cry over losing them, I cry because I don’t have any memories of them.
I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.
For a girl with no family and no home, Tess is surprisingly optimistic.
That’s all it’s ever been about. Land, land, land.
He has bright blue eyes, dirt on his face, and a beat-up old cap on, and at this moment, I think he might be the most beautiful boy I’ve ever seen.
“Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks. It’ll buy you relief, status, friends, safety … all sorts of things.”
THE GIRL Who Shatters the Shining
Ollie looks back at me with that universal dog wisdom, then promptly goes back to sleep.
He looks like an angel, if a broken one.
sometimes it feels like we’re the same person born into two different worlds.”
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
“You try to walk in the light.”
We lie there together, watching the lightning and listening to the thunder, and waiting for the beginning of a rainy dawn.
