"And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...I don't know, it would feel like home."
"There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?"."
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