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"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."
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"What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread."
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"There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go."
Knowledge

"A Cue from NatureRun outside during a thunderstormThat downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilarationThat's what unlonely is like."
Nature

"New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too."
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"My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside."
Emotion

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."
Identity

"It was so screwed up, because the thing that made us the most powerless also gave us such power. We could make them turn away. We could bother them and challenge them and mess them up. You think people are afraid of two boys in love? To hell with that. What people are really afraid of is two boys screwing."
Society

"Now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS)"
Social

"The sadness will ebbthe trouble is the time it might take."
Healing

"It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say."
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"An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now."
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"...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty."
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"Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?"
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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
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"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
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"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."
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"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
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"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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