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John Geddes

"It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ..."

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"It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ..."

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Amber Hurdle

"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning."

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"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."

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"It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?"

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"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich."

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Amber Hurdle

"Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten."

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Amber Hurdle

"And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold, And freshen in this air of withering sweetness."

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"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."

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Amber Hurdle

"I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost."

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