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"I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?"
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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."
"When will the others come?"And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!"
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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."
"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads."
"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.We lived and died together.All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses."
"Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one."
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