"Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence."

Loss, Absence, Presence, Awareness, Truth

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"Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence."

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"Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on."

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"American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know what I mean?"

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"Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change."

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"She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it."

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"I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?"

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"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"

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"Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere."

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"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."

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"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."

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"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."

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"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."

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"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"

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