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“I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she ...”
“Silvers sweet and golds our mother, but once youre dead theyre worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.”
“Everything had life to me, he heard Enkidu murmur, the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. Its gone. Its gone.”
“To do more, is not necessarily to do better.”
“i love walking in the rain because no one knows im dying”
“One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.”
“He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry”
“Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be?”
“So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.- from the story "De Composition”
“"If I was afraid of dying, I couldn't do half the shit I do." I told him.”
“and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.”
“There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.”
“When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.”
“If you were dying...If you were sixteen and dying...If your blood was spilling out of you, calling to them, the creatures of the night, and you knew you were dying...If you saw their pale faces and...”
“Oh, honey, she said, her tone echoing Watties. Im not sick. Im only dying.”
“A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.”
“He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems - the way they had always.. because Morr...”
“Men so sick they are dying of death.”
“You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.”
“But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.”
