The Choice
that he was the one with the most important things to say. I told the parents I would spend th ...
“What would that teach him? at the world bends over for you if you’re soft?” “ere are ways to t ...
“I don’t think you understand the pressure I’m under.” “What would it take for you to feel safe?” “Safety i ...
“I feel hot. My chest is tight.” “What are you thinking?” “at it isn’t safe. at we’re going to ...
What did you have to give up to get here?” “I had to be away from my family a lot.” “What else?” “Whe ...
does their story have to do with me? Something about the colonel’s guilt, about his prison of s ...
seemed to find injustice and inconvenience everywhere in her life. The hour was wasting away, and ...
Later I would receive a beautiful letter from Margaret’s son. I don’t know what you said to my mo ...
CHAPTER 19 Leave a Stone I can’t imagine going back to hell without Magda. “Fly to Kraków tonight ...
We travel to Salzburg, where we tour the cathedral constructed on the ruins of a Roman church. It has been ...
Prešov with a diamond ring in my hand, to a medical examiner’s office in Vienna with my brother-in-law p ...
stay in the situation, to develop the only thing I had left, to look within for the part of me that n ...
his sexuality and identity. I gave him all of my compassion, but he was stuck, he was angry, caught in the ...
medieval architecture, but my mind is too heavy with expectation—a strange mix of promise and ...
I tried to silence that voice. I listed my many objections to the very notion that I could be a big ...
singular being and our shared humanity. e opportunity to welcome him to say anything, feel any feeling, with ...
the capacity to hate and the capacity to love. Which one we reach for —our inner Hitler or inner ten ...
eight or ten. e immensity crushes. I sense it in our stillness, in the way we almost stop breathi ...
him to come with me, but I shake my head. is last piece of the journey I must travel alo ...
my mother has intuited the need for me to appear my age or older, for me to look old enough to get through ...
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