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The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
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“I will tell you a truth I learned as a child, but which I forgot for a while,” Jada went on, maybe having read Sophie’s mind. “It is like your smile copying your father’s, or Moran’s nose matching his mother’s, or Lilith’s eyes reflecting our parents when I look in them. You would call this a family resemblance, yes? But there is a deeper resemblance, Sophie—a truer one that connects each human throughout history. You and I, and whoever it is that we have hated, were sculpted after the same model. We are, somehow, each of us, portraits of the same painter. Sophie, to hate another person is but one breath away from hating God.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
“When one becomes used to being invisible, being seen can be quite a shock. One feels vulnerable, exposed—violated, even. We do not just hold secrets, Sophie. We are secrets, and when we are Spotted, it is as if someone has wrenched the secret right out of us. It is very uncomfortable, if you can imagine such a thing.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
“Jada nodded. “An astute observation. Though he faced more scrutiny than I. It can be dangerous, telling stories.”
Sophie tilted her head. She’d never heard of anyone being in danger from a story. “What do you mean?”
“You never can know what people will do with them.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
Sophie tilted her head. She’d never heard of anyone being in danger from a story. “What do you mean?”
“You never can know what people will do with them.”
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“To be alive is to be burdened, Sophie,” Jada said. “Because to live is to see, to see is to know, and to know is to hurt. This is life, and it is not comfortable or easy. But the alternative is to walk around with a heart that does not know, because it cannot see, because it is dead inside your chest. You decide which is the greater tragedy.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
“Jada watched for five heartbeats, her whole face tight. When she turned to Sophie, her eyes were like ice. “Remember this, my little friend: Words are weapons. Do not use the ones I am about to share against me.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
“Sophie wished she could take a timeout from the conversation to process what was happening in her head and her heart. Here she was with a brand-new friend, and now she was meeting her brand-new friend’s friend, and while it was nice to hear her brand-new friend’s friend say she was her brand-new friend’s new friend, there was a kind of bitterness in learning her brand-new friend had an old friend.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
“Sophie didn’t even try to stop her tears. “But what are we going to do?” she asked, library-soft.
“As I said, we can prepare, as we have done, and we can pray. That is all there is to do.”
“That doesn’t feel like enough.”
“It rarely does, but we must trust that it is more than enough.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told
“As I said, we can prepare, as we have done, and we can pray. That is all there is to do.”
“That doesn’t feel like enough.”
“It rarely does, but we must trust that it is more than enough.”
― The Keeper of What Cannot Be Told