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The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.
I’m your elder, Hugo, which means you should be hanging on to my every word and believing everything I say.”
It’d be kind of hard to explain that my tea shop is actually just a front for dead people to have pseudo-intellectual conversations.”
It’s not about what he needs, necessarily, because that might imply he’s lacking something. It’s about what he wants. There’s a difference. I think we forget that, sometimes.”
He wondered when the threshold had been crossed that he couldn’t refuse Hugo anything.
Do you love him?” “Yes.” It was said with such a tangible fierceness that Wallace could taste it in the back of his throat, the remnants of a fire that smoldered and sparked.
Remember what I told you about need versus want? We don’t need you because that implies you had to fix something in us. We were never broken. We want you, Wallace. Every piece. Every part.
