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“The simplest explanation is often the truth.”
But their worst sin, the very cruelest of all, is when they don’t tell the whole truth and then convince themselves that this isn’t the same as lying.
“If my husband ends up in prison because of you, I’ll end up in prison for murder, you need to be very clear about that!” she hisses.
“Ramona hardly liked anyone, but she liked you, Peter. I hardly like anyone either.”
planet and we were the best in the world. The very finest thing you can give a child is somewhere to belong. The biggest thing you can have is being part of something.
He had the desire but not the talent, and maybe I’ve got the talent but not the desire…” “Desire is a talent,” Benji says.
We’ll say that this has long historical roots. Deep cultural causes. That the antagonism has been passed down for generations. That you can’t understand it if you’re not from here.
Mothers have no armor to get them through life because they give every last bit to their children, by the end of their teenage years there isn’t even any skin left, so every feeling of loss cuts right into her flesh now.
It’s a beautiful evening, the stars are bright and snow is falling, the ice is in his nostrils and crunching beneath his shoes. He loves this place, no one would believe that if they heard it, of course, but he’s traveled all around half the world and still hasn’t seen anywhere like this. The forest and the lake, the wilderness and snow, it’s unbeatable.
She got stuck on those words: simply complicated. Complicatedly simple. Is there any other sort of person?
her, and when she resisted he grabbed her wrist