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Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6) QUOTES

Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6) QUOTES

1 " Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. And I’m aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

2 " the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

3 " Molleken "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

4 " He’d done his best to lock himself off from the past, and yet here it was again, rearing its head, threatening to buck him like a horse. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

5 " If you have to tell people you’re important,” Evan said, “then you’re not important. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

6 " Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

7 " I don’t know. It’s one of the awful secrets to getting older. You don’t ever get the answers. Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. And I’m aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.” She arched an eyebrow. “If I’m around.” She examined the flute once more. “Maybe that’s all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don’t know anything.” “So "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

8 " One thing he’d learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

9 " It brought Duran back to his childhood, where he’d seen a lot of things kids weren’t meant to see and some stuff beyond that. It had been like a tour of duty, his childhood, a state of mind to be endured. His senses had been alive then, that was for sure. So much unrealized potential, so many dreams of who he could be and what he’d do when he got there. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

10 " Fear needs a future,” Evan said. “Let’s focus on the present. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

11 " Maybe that's what intimacy was... A sense of dread at what could go wrong, a stifling of fear, a baring of the vulnerable self to the judgement of someone else. The jagged edge of one soul meeting another, tearing and rending, a connection and a diminishment both. All that imperfection, all that friction - it wore down the tread, expanding rather than preserving. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

12 " The hardest part of trying to become an adult is realizing that your suffering doesn't entitle you to anything. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

13 " You took your own insecurity and put it on her. That weakens her. And it weakens you. You treat a young woman like that with respect. If nothing else it'll teach you about yourself. teach you who you want to be whenever you're ready to be that person. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)