1
It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself — to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.Leslie Parry
2
She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife — flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave — she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.Leslie Parry
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But this dagger — this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.Leslie Parry