“Sometimes I wish things would never change.” “That is like trying to stop the dawn,” Meloux said. “Better, I think, to open yourself to what each new day offers.” “What if it offers only pain, Henry?” Cork’s father said. “In my experience, pain is never the only offering. What we receive depends on what we open our hearts to.” “We’re only human, Henry,” Cork’s father said. “Oh, Liam O’Connor, we are so much more than that.”
