“I wipe away tears. All these years I assumed that my dad was dead, but hearing this story makes the pain feel fresh again. "How did you keep going?"Because as long as you were alive, there was hope. That's all people need in order to do amazing things, Alenna. Hope is the great human motivator. It always has been.”
“What I see are human bodies.”
“So this is the bogeyman.”
“Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.”
“Imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.”