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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."
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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
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"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."
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"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."
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"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."
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"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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"Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!"
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
Truth
"Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually. The important thing is that you keep trying to talk to each other, even if it's difficult at first. It gets easier. I promise."
Grief
"School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives."
Learning
"The best gifts come from the heart, not the store."
Giving
"I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone."
Relationship
"Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand."
Belief
"There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish."
Regret
"We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own."
Presence
"I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all."
Emotion
"Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on."
Trust
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