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But untold histories live in shallow graves. Some nights, the cold wakes me and I find I’ve clawed my way out from under the covers. I count the stars to catch my breath.
Life
conceals blood just as well as it conceals spilled tea.
She would be brave because her father had once told her that the world lived within her. That her bones were made of mountains. That rivers coursed through her veins. That her heartbeat was the sound of a thousand pounding hooves. That her eyes glittered with the light of a starry sky.
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With a kind of magic I didn’t fully appreciate as a child, my parents spun grief into gratitude.
Life
the truth my brother had yet to learn—that closing his eyes would not make him invisible to those determined to find him.
Life
“The bright light of seeking can blind a person from finding anything at all. We’re not looking. We’re finding.”
Isnt this life?
“It’s a messy business, having children. Parents are supposed to be wise and worthy and selfless, and really, it’s the other way around. Most of the time you can get away with the masquerade and it feels great. But then you walk off the stage and into the daylight, and suddenly the whole world can see it was all bad makeup and props,” Tilly said, tears sliding down her cheeks, wetting the pain she’d drawn on her face. By some dark magic, I watched Tilly shrink with sorrow and grow with love. She grew distant even as she drew me in, and my own cheeks became slick with tears as I thought of how
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Life parenting and parents
But maybe, I thought, if I could manage to feign bravery in this moment, then I could feign bravery at another moment. And maybe if I feigned bravery enough, I could grow into it.
My journey atm
You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be.
Hmmm
A man holds his empty hand out for help. Another man wears thick gold rings on every finger and has a brick of gold in the palm of his hand. Which man struggles more to bear the weight of his outstretched hand?
Life
He looks old enough to be seasoned but young enough to have more to accomplish.
Goal
Necessity isn’t just the mother of invention. She’s the mother of faith too.
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