All the Crooked Saints

It was often so easy to identify the darkness from the outside. But from the inside, your darkness was indistinguishable from your other thoughts.

This did not, as you might imagine, make Pete feel any better, as very few people are ever healed by being told a truth instead of feeling the truth for themselves.

We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don’t always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change.