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"And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary."
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"I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost."
"Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance."
"Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives."
"Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it."
"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."
"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."
"Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?"
"I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know."
"I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?"
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