A review by katkejt
Whisper by Tal Bauer

5.0

Kris • Dawood (David)

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“I’ll be waiting for you.” ♾️.

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“Like everything in me is supposed to belong to everything in you.”

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The heart and knowledge poured into this book. I am astounded. I will never properly convey into words the effect this book had on me while reading. So I decided it to leave it at that. It’s in my heart now. 

“Where did it all end? How? Had the paths of history become so hopelessly entangled that there was no end? Just a ceaseless cycle of violence and death, killer and murdered always trading places? Where was reason? Where was justice?”

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Hans Zimmer - Leave No Man Behind

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“He had a sharp tongue and no patience for the sidelong looks he got. He just lived louder, filling up the space everyone left around him.” // “Kris looked back once.” // “Why did David want to crawl to him? Stay by his side until his heart stopped beating?” // “At night, truth rose like stars, like the moon, bathing him in things he didn’t want to see, to feel.” // “When the moon had set, he’d started to whisper, breathing into Kris’s ear.” // “But… there are places in this world where hearts don’t beat. Where humanity is just… gone.” // “Out of everyone in the room, David burned the brightest, laughed the loudest, transfixed Kris in ways he couldn’t describe. He almost couldn’t breathe…” // “We’ll have to go there when we get back.” // “You’d better.” // “For David, the world finally began to spin again.” // “When I am with you, I feel parts of myself come together. Parts I thought couldn’t ever mix. You make me want to be everything I am. For you.” // “If it weren’t for all of that.” // “The kaleidoscope of his soul shifted, twisted.” // “Hadn’t he failed in all the ways a person could fail?” // “You have ten minutes…” // “This confession? This is a love letter.” // “When we lose ourselves, when we become what we hate, we’ve lost everything.” // “But for today, they had this.” …

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