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So it’s not the dark that keeps me awake. It’s the nightmare.
Gen was a Cancer; morning wasn’t her best time of day. Cancers were notorious night owls.
“If you didn’t have bad things, you wouldn’t have good things. They would all just be things. Did you ever think about that?”
“That’s the problem. People don’t want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.”
“Crying is good for the soul,” said Ruby softly. “It means something needs to be released. And if you don’t release the something, it just weighs you down until you can hardly move.”
“Of all the questions you ever ask yourself in life, never ask, ‘What’s the point?’ It’s the worst question in the world,” Ruby said.
“Bayani, of all the things you ever tell yourself in life, never say, ‘There’s no chance.’”
“The world looks different through newly opened eyes, Virgilio. It’s the trick of time. What you believe today, you may not believe tomorrow. Things change when you’re not looking. And then you open your eyes, and you see—” Light.
