It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.
Justin CroninBecause that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.
Justin CroninIt was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.
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