“You’d be surprised at what a man will do to avoid paying taxes.”
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There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.
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She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.
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The boy beside her.
The future before her. Anything was possible.
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“On the seas and in the city. One by one.”
“Brick by brick,”
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“Say you’ll return.”
“I’m not done with Ketterdam.” She hadn’t known she meant it until
she’d said the words.
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“That berth
belongs to you too. It will always be there when—if you want to come
back.”
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Whenever he sat down to try to get some work done, he’d
find his eyes straying to the window ledge.
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“You’re my son, Jesper. I can’t protect you. Maybe I shouldn’t have tried.
But I will be there even when you falter. Every time.”