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“All things pass from this life into the life of the earth. You know this.”
But Raven chose to believe that powerful beings were compassionate no matter who believed in them. Jackie and Huck were two of six pallbearers.
That’s how I always see you: out here. Even at school. You’re like a piece of the forest that comes inside for a little while.”
“Trees can do this amazing thing called Compartmentalization of Decay. When they get an injury, the cells around the wound change and put up a wall that contains the process of decay. Around that wall, a different kind of change in the cells forms another wall. Then a third wall. And a fourth.”
Not one name in common. Not one experience shared for sixteen years. Suddenly knotted together more by pain than blood.
Sixteen years of pain, guilt, blame, and anger crammed into their gazes. And maybe a little bit of love. Jonah embraced her, and she hugged him back. The strangest part was how easily her body remembered his. The smell of him, the way he held her, the soft sound of his breath in her ear. A thousand memories ignited in her nerve endings in the few seconds their bodies touched.
He needs to touch the earth to have a good reason to wake up.”
As usual, River stared at his phone during the drive into Gainesville. His phone was as much an addiction as the drugs
Who could know their future with a person they cared about? And even if they did somehow find out something bad was going to happen with that person, would they give up on them? Let them suffer alone? Love couldn’t be removed like a thorn from a thumb.
