" ...As if it’s all so easy. If it’s so easy, why don’t we talk about it more?”

“It hurts too much,” Mather says. Just that simple.

That makes me stop. I meet his eyes, a long, careful gaze. “Someday it won’t hurt.”

The promise we refugees always make one another— We’ll be better . . . someday. "

― Sara Raasch , Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)