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“To be honest, sometimes I’m glad your grandma didn’t have to live through this. I think about it sometimes, that she never heard about it. She never worried about it. She never lost anyone to it. She left before she ever had to take on
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“Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me, she thought, and the words were true enough that she repeated them aloud: “Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Only by learning about the journeys of others can we truly understand our own”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Parents don't always like to admit that things have changed. They want the world to be exactly the way it was before their children went away on these life-changing adventures, and when the world doesn't oblige, they try to force it into the boxes they build for us.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
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