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“Yeah, but what does that even mean... heaven? Because see, I need to be able to put him somewhere, Zo. In my head, I mean. I need to be able to close my eyes and picture him and know he's okay. And just saying the word heaven doesn't help that much. Because like what is heaven, exactly? And where is it? And what do you do there?”

Book:Mick Harte Was Here

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Mick Harte Was Here

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Barbara Park

Barbara Park, an American children's literature author, was born on April 21, 1947, and passed away on November 15, 2013. She is best known for her popular 'Judy Blume' series, which tells the story of a lively girl named Judy Blume and has been beloved by children around the world. more

“When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself without an owner, it looked so lonely, it looked so empty. Something made me pick it up arid take it in to her. Like when someone's going away, you help them on with their coat, or their jackboots, or whatever it is they need for going away. I didn't try to put it back on her, I just set it down there beside her close at hand. You're going to need this, I said to her in my mind. You're starting on a long walk. You're going to keep walking from now on, looking for your home. I stopped and wondered for a minute if that was what happened to all of us when we crossed over. Just keep walking, keep on walking, with no ahead and no in-back-of; tramps, vagrants in eternity. With our last hope and horizon - death - already taken away. In the Middle Ages they had lurid colors, a bright red hell, an azure heaven shot with gold stars. They knew where they were, at least. They could tell the difference. We, in the Twentieth, we just have the long walk, the long walk through the wispy backward-stringing mists of eternity, from nowhere to nowhere, never getting there, until you're so tired you almost wish you were alive again. ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" - first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)”

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Author:Cornell Woolrich

“Good memories invite heaven.”

Heaven Memories Memory

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.”

Heaven Hell Paradise

Book:Witching Hour

Source: Witching Hour

“A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and kept looking up at them, but made no comment until her father asked what she was thinking. She replied, "If the bottom side of heaven is so beautiful, how wonderful the other side must be”