T.L. Hines 2006Jude Allman has died three times, and three times, he miraculously came back from the dead. The story implies the premise that we are all here on this earth for a reason. It is both mysterious and inspirational.
"The first time Jude Allman died, he was eight years old."
"Keep it secret, keep it safe. He said it in his mind, over and over, a kind of mantra that calmed his body, stilled his nerves. Keep it secret, keep it safe."
"When he was younger, he had always assumed mentally ill people couldn't know they were sick. After all, it you were sane enough to recognize you were crazy, how crazy could you really be? But now he knew that wasn't the case. He had always been to feel the paranoia creeping into his own brain. Felt it crawling like a low slug, and yet he was powerless to stop it."
"The world swam. Colors reversed. Reversed. Jude shook his head, thinking he must be blacking out, but the odd colors stayed in his line of vision. It was as if he were looking at film negatives, everything tinted a sick orange, the sky dark and shadows white."
"All I can say is: there must be a good reason why you're still here, because there are a thousand reasons why you shouldn't be."
"You're worried about what you did today. Or, more appropriately, didn't do. To be blunt, you should be. One, it's never a good idea to ignore the signs as they're given to you. Two, you need to keep in mind every decision in the universe has ripples, echoes that spread out from it."
"Accepting and becoming. It had been so much easier than expected. They were two, and they were one. Always had been, probably. But they had been so careful to separate the two before, afraid not to separate the two. The Normal needed to mix in, the Hunter needed to be invisible."
"If you had died first, this conversation never would have happened. So in an odd way we're here right now because of Mom."
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