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21 " Pax? That’s his name? It means ‘peace,’ you know.” Peter knew that—lots of people had told him. “But "
― Sara Pennypacker , Pax (Pax #1)
22 " You may be on your own. But you won't be alone. "
23 " It is now. But a trip like this? You will find something to fill it with. A truth of your own, that you discover on your own. "
24 " Oh, let me tell you, feelings are all dangerous. Love, hope...Ha! Hope! You talk about dangerous, eh? No, you can't avoid them. We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it" -Vola "
25 " We all own a beast called anger. It "
26 " [A] baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be. "
27 " It hung between grief and yearning, and it welled from a deep ache for something that Pax could never divine. "
28 " The new joy of speed, the urgency of coming night, the hope of reunion with his boy – these things transformed him into something that shot like liquid fire between the trees. Something gravity couldn't touched. Pax could have run forever. "
29 " She said it meant that no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again. "
30 " And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said. Weren't those things the costs of war, too? "
31 " I have twenty acres of trees to care for. And I’m a wood-carver. You thought they were weapons?” Peter "
32 " Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace. Eat. "
33 " And with that memory, the anxiety snake struck so hard that it stunned Peter’s breath out of him. "
34 " Ti Poul. "
35 " Because what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage. He "
36 " Vola eyed him as she sawed a slice off a ham joint "
37 " You’re going to work some puppets for me. Marionettes. That sound too hard?” “Marionettes? "
38 " Gray had not gotten better. "