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There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

M.J. Rose

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

M.J. Rose
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I felt his voice. Fingers rubbing moss. Smoke curling. Wood worn and smoothed over time. His voice had darkness in it that hovered close to the ground, like a mist hanging over a lake deep in a forest at dusk. A bolt of sea-green velvet. A sensation as much as a series of sounds. It reverberated inside me.
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