Prodigal Son
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
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“Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. And I’m aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.”
“the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it.”
“One thing he’d learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.”
“Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.”
“Maybe that’s all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don’t know anything.”
“It brought Duran back to his childhood, where he’d seen a lot of things kids weren’t meant to see and some stuff beyond that. It had been like a tour of duty, his childhood, a state of mind to be endured. His senses had been alive then, that was for sure. So much unrealized potential, so many dreams of who he could be and what he’d do when he got there.”
“If you have to tell people you’re important,” Evan said, “then you’re not important.”
“I don’t know. It’s one of the awful secrets to getting older. You don’t ever get the answers. Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. And I’m aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.” She arched an eyebrow. “If I’m around.” She examined the flute once more. “Maybe that’s all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don’t know anything.” “So”
“He’d done his best to lock himself off from the past, and yet here it was again, rearing its head, threatening to buck him like a horse.”
“Fear needs a future,” Evan said. “Let’s focus on the present.”
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