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"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."

"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."

"The thin line between life and death is still under construction."
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"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."
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