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“I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfor...”
“This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.”
“I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smil...”
“If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine”
“we need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken”
“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.”
“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then its over and youre relieved.”
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the...”
“... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
“Im really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.”
“You gave me forever within the numbered days.”
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of th...”
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldnt bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldnt bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldnt even imagine themselves not...”
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably...”
“Jesus, Im not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what theyre gonna do. Im just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. Huh? I asked. You spend your w...”