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"When I was a wee little kid,' remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, 'there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing."
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"I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared."
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"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."
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"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."
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"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."
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"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."
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"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."
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"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."
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"You never know when you're making a memory."
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"Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens."
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"Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself."
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Heart
"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."
Energy
"Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved."
Faith
"What you are is a question only you can answer."
Question
"It's true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.''Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.''That's not insight. That's a personal guarantee."
Miracles
"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."
Duty
"But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god."
Religion
"I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back."
Memory
"Change is possible.''Change is inevitable."
Change
"Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished."
Maturity
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