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"When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance."
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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
"We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you."
"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
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