We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.

“Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would …”

“I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusti…”

“Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that wh…”

“Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety perce…”