Holly Cupala Quotes

#1. It's the grit that makes the pearl.

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#2. At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.

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#3. She looked like she wanted to take her right up to the baptismal waters and introduce her to some redemption.

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#4. We're all family
the only family we've got. It doesn't have to be blood.

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#5. ASHES.
He had reduced me to ashes.
And now I would rise.

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#6. Ask no questions, I tell no lies.

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#7. If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?

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#8. Maybe that's why he watched over all of us
because of the ones he couldn't protect, he took care of the ones he could.

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#9. When the worst happens and you still survive, it sets you free from fear.

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#10. Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.
Future. Hope.
And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night.

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#11. I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.

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#12. Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.

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