Sere Prince Halverson Quotes

#1. ...but he saw how in the end, maybe it wasn't the actual person who helped you across whatever you needed to cross over. Maybe it was simply your love for that person.

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#2. It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

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#3. Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.

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#4. Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

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#5. No need to get a rumor heading through town that would end up like one of the salmon on the conveyor belt down at the cannery, the head and tail of the story cut off and the middle butchered up until it became something unrecognizable.

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#6. I hide away in stillness, and the world spins on. I have wasted much.

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#7. This was the part of the road he knew best, the part his old blue Schwinn had known so well that at one time, the bike might have found its way back home without anyone riding it.

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#8. We all break the surface into this life already howling the cries of our ancestors, bearing their DNA, their eye colors and their scars, their glory and their shame. It is theirs; it is ours. It is the underside of joy.

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#9. With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things.

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#10. The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.

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#11. ... that same hardware and tackle shop his dad got lost in for hours while Kache waited in the truck, writing lyrics on the backs of old envelopes his mom kept in the glove compartment for blotting her lipstick. Kache had written around the red blooms of her lip prints.

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#12. I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.

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