Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.
Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead.
“He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace.”
“Who hurt you, once, so far beyond repairthat you would meet each overturewith curling lip?While we, who knew you well, your friends, (the focus of your scorn)could see your courage in the face of f...”
“and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge”
“Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.”
“A lot of what we know to be history isntit serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public op...”
“That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.”
“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”
“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young peop...”
“I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”