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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."

"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
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"I didn't mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me."

"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."

"You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape."

"The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something."

"Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends."

"There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze."
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