A man with daughters knows what it is to be afraid.


“Grief does strange things to people’s minds. This I know. One morning a couple of weeks after my mother died, my dad said he thought he could smell her cheesy grits cooking on the stove—my favorite and my mother’s specialty. Once, I heard her humming down the hall from my bedroom. Something so mundane and simple, so regular and small, that for a moment, the prior weeks were just a nightmare, and I was awake now and she was alive. Death moves faster than brains do.”
― Legendborn
― Legendborn

“Peace comes when stories are celebrated, not erased.”
― Raybearer
― Raybearer

“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Legendborn
― Legendborn

“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain to acknowledge them back. They need to witness it in real time, or else you're not doing your part.”
― Legendborn
― Legendborn

“Stories are meant to be shared," Melu said gently, "but no one was made for another person, Tarisai.”
― Raybearer
― Raybearer

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