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“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”
“She was so beautiful I had to move away.”
“You put your time where your priority is.”
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
“The physical shock took away the pain of being.”
“Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.”
“I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so ...”
“That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.”
“It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.”
“The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?”
“I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.”
“The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.”
“A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.”
“I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran down the side of his chin. Then he stopped breathing. And I thought, I'll make sure I ne...”
“There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever ha...”
“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. Its that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Bananas dont do psychological consistency. And the tiny p...”
“It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.”
“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.”
“How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.”
“And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might de...”
“We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.”
“Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.”
“And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.”
