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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to...”
“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)”
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”
“She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.”
“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 liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”
“All the things people carry in their hearts, love, hatred, fears, and they had to be shared with a friend or a loved one, because when we do not share them, sometime, all the things love, anger, ha...”
“He'd seen that the young ones died quickly. He'd heard the staff talk about it. When they were ready they let go. Not like adults. Adults took a long time. It was as if adults had built such a thic...”
“It's nice to see how the suffering does away in time. It always does”
“All but one of Zoe Pendergraft's friends were dead.”
“I used to say why save money if I'll die tomorrow, I havent died yet and I have nothing to survive on”
“Tell Hugh," she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.”
“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
“If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.”
“Lets face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.”
“The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold,When all is toldWe cannot beg for pardon.Our freedom as free lancesAdvanc...”
“It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compas...”
“The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.”
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
“The best way to die is when your living”
