“again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes hadn't given her this concrete insight: her voice was her place in the world, the home she leaves in the morning and returns to at night, in which she can be herself in her entirety and hope to be loved for all that she is and in spite of all she is.”
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“Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.”
“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.”
“We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home.”
“Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home.”