“LOSS COMES IN every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is past will never come again.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
“what I know in my heart is a mystery beyond human comprehension. Perhaps the most important truth I’ve learned across the whole of my life is that it’s only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Our eyes perceive so dimly, and our brains are so easily confused. Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
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