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“A huge impatience overcame me. Maybe it was impatience to find out what death was like, since life had been so different than anybody said.”

Life Death Fear Courage

Book:Listening at the Gate

Source: Listening at the Gate

“From cold or horror I could not speak. The sodden blanket was heavy, the coldness in my heart flowed out and turned the whole world cold—there was no warm place. The thoughts I had frozen in order not to feel them grew monstrous, freezing everything else.”

Mind Fear Sadness Survival Frozen

Book:Listening at the Gate

Source: Listening at the Gate

“But behind Nall’s abandoned face he was sinking, as if he held a stone that he would not let go of though it dragged him under.”

Fear Sadness Sorrow Depression

Book:Listening at the Gate

Source: Listening at the Gate

“The high fear was over, and nothing was left but the fear that never stops, the one that asks and asks, *How shall I stay alive today?*”

Fear Alive Survival

Book:Roadsouls

Source: Roadsouls

“What followed her stayed just out of sight in the woods and deep grasses. It was quiet. She was not sure what it waited for; it ought to have eaten her before she had walked so far with nothing but grubs for dinner. Her arms looked narrow, and even her hurt wrist looked thin. She thought, At my right hand Raím follows me in the mountain. He is a ghost; I am becoming a ghost. When I have walked to the end of the mountain he will be there, and I shall lie down against his shoulder, and stop walking, and be safe.”

Love Life Death Fear Survival Surrender Ghost

Book:Roadsouls

Source: Roadsouls

“Another face shone through his man’s face, like a stone through running water.”

Love Pain Fear Cold Anger Stillness

Book:Listening at the Gate

Source: Listening at the Gate

“Because I was too afraid, I walked to the corpse and looked at it. It was bad. Then not so bad—a man turning into bone.”

Death Fear Grief Acceptance Sorrow

Book:Listening at the Gate

Source: Listening at the Gate

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