“School is a terrible place, I have decided. There is nothing good about it except for math class. Everything else is a total waste of time. As I mentioned before I have done a lot of reading about prisons, and… — Dara Horn Copy Share
The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“I believe that when people die, they go to the same place as all the people who haven’t yet been born. That’s why it’s called the world to come, because that’s where they make the new souls for the future. And the reward when good people die” – her mother paused, swallowed, paused again – “the reward when good people… — Dara Horn Copy Share
“Ben, everything is going to get better," he heard her say in the void. "Really. It has to get better, because it can't get worse." Ben opened his eyes with a jolt, staring at himself in the mirror. That's not true, he suddenly thought. It can definitely get worse. As he nodded at Sara and pretended to smile, he understood… — Dara Horn Copy Share
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material… — Dara Horn Copy Share
“There is a moment that has happened over and over again, in every place children have ever slept, on every dark night for the past ten thousand years, that almost everyone who was once a child will forever remember. It happens when you are being tucked into bed, on a dark and frightened night when the sounds of the nighttime… — Dara Horn Copy Share
“Hair in darkness doesn’t feel the way it does in light. In light, you can touch a person’s hair and not feel it at all - you might think you are feeling it, but really you are seeing its color, seeing its shape, seeing the light and the shadows intertwined between the hair and your own hands. But in darkness,… — Dara Horn Copy Share
“School is a terrible place, I have decided. There is nothing good about it except for math class. Everything else is a total waste of time. As I mentioned before I have done a lot of reading about prisons, and I notice that they always describe them as painted in very dull colors, and my school is also painted in… — Dara Horn Copy Share
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“But there is also something inherently shameful in the rescuer-rescued relationship - the humiliation of being reduced to depending on another person for survival… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
