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“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”

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Tad Williams

Tad Williams, born on March 14, 1957, is a renowned American fantasy author known for his rich imagination, complex plots, and profound character development. more

“His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.”

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”

Knows Stills Next Games Felt Hurt Tricks Next Time

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”

Knows Way I Hate You Tweak

Author:John Lennon

“A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.”

People Giving Persons Guy Higher Speech Thirds Average Lists Funeral Surveys Eulogy Coffins Average Person Greatest Fear

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.”

Helping Interest Differences Listening Hearing You Choose

Book:Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

“She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.”

Ifs Self Hands Turns Lovers Decided Mood Naked Versions Intimate Reach Out Whim Comrade

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”

Source: Sula

“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”

Left Evidence Absence Butterfly Now And Then Tangible Stunning Reeds Whistling Blueberries

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

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