* / FEATHER.

❝ let me hold your hand. ❞

❝ you don’t remember any of it? ❞ 

❝ said it was a crap idea. ❞ 

❝ we’re going to bed. that’s what. at least you are. at your age you need a full night’s sleep. ❞

❝ quit the clowning. ❞

❝ they’re sparrow tracks. ❞

❝ you mean you and me? ❞

❝ i’ll get it. don’t worry. ❞ 

❝ makes you look like a baddie. ❞ 

❝ yeah, like a baddie in a cowboy film. ❞

❝ what the hell was everybody talking about? ❞

❝ you’d better lie down. ❞

❝ that’s rule number one. there is no need for language like that. ❞

❝ there are some things you shouldn’t forget about. ❞  

❝ rule number two is that you go to bed when i say. ❞

❝ leave room for something else. ❞

❝ but this compromise eventually gave way to not praying at all. ❞

❝ never mind. some day i’ll explain. ❞  

❝ you’re all bones. ❞ 

❝ try to get some sleep, son. ❞ 

❝ it would be a pure act. ❞

❝ look, i love you. i will not run away from you because i love you. ❞

❝ you had something you wanted to discuss with me? ❞

❝ i don’t give a shit one way or the other. ❞ 

❝ pray for a miracle. ❞

❝ obedience is a very rare virtue. simple people have it, and it tends to go hand in hand with humility. ❞

❝ the only bit i can remember is just before. just before it starts. ❞

❝ do you know when you are writing on a blackboard and the chalk slips and you scrape your nail up against it? ❞ 

❝ it’s everything, everything about this place. what it stands for. ❞

❝ i don’t like leaving you alone for so long. anything could happen. ❞ 

❝ do you want me to read some more? ❞  

❝ it’s as bad as i’ve seen you. ❞  

❝ your face is dirty, and your hands. ❞  

❝ it was motivated by love. ❞

❝ get out before i hit you. ❞

❝ fuck the rules. ❞ 

❝ when you have whittled away everything that makes you who you are, then that is your true self. ❞