#atonement

"Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient."

"I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are."

"He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive."