Leo: The turtle who has lived a very long time.
“Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one you are with. And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side. For these, my dear boy, are the answers to what is most important in this world.”
“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
“It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather then against. For ourselves.”
“"I wanted to feel myself getting closer step by step, feel the tension rising like fizz in a soda bottle."”
“When I read about things like there I wonder, Is she there? I wonder what she calls herself now. I wonder if she's lost her freckles. I wonder if I'll ever get another chance.”
“The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than stars looking down on me.”
“There was no direction to my liberation. I had no urge to color my hair or trash my sneakers. So I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. The pronoun "we" itself seemed to rack and drift apart in pieces.”
“Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.”
Leo: Father of Sebastian
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