“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”
“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”
“Maybe that's why we used to get along so well - we both enjoyed lounging around in our own chaos.”
“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”
“Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.”
“They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.”
“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”
“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”
“Reflecting your current reality. Dreams are fasinating, aren't they? Portholes into the subconscious.”
“Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines.”
“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”
“Solitude is addictive. Once you discover how peaceful it is, you no longer want or need to deal with people anymore.”
“Yes, I love your eyes—they are black and deep and almond-shaped but I see the kindness in those eyes I have never seen before,”
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
“Finally I say a prayer of thanks to God for taking a broken man and making him whole, for being my Redeemer, graciously giving me a second chance as a pitcher, as a husband and father, and as a Christian man. I know my journey is nowhere near complete. The point isn’t to arrive. The point is to seek, to walk humbly with God, to keep walking and keep believing even though you know there will be times when you make mistakes and feel lost. You keep seeking the path, and He will show you the way.”
“I have always been suspicious of the phrase, the glow of pregnancy, and my suspicions were only confirmed by Lillian's appearance. Instead of a glow, her whole body seemed to become more and more dull, sallow and sickly sweet and vague, like a candle burning out or a line of smudged writing.”
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