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“To survive is to face the truth that man made this extinction. Survival and grief are too often felt together. How do we live in a world without the millions who died in the pandemic? How do we live in the same world with those responsible for the loss of so many of us?”

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Book:Push and Pull

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“We forget we are making history whether or not we think we are worthy of being remembered. We are here. History books are always being written. The flood is here, and there are countless lifeless bodies in the current. The flood does not give a shit. It just floods. Every day there is a new strain, a new disaster, or a new reason to stop fighting. Still, we are here. Fighting to survive is not new. But, let us not forget that evolution has always been a function of extinction. Life must go on, somehow. Overwhelming loss suffocates us just as much as the pollution. But, every time there is another reason to not fight, we must remember: Those of us who fight the hardest, who evolve despite, are those of us who shape the backbones of those who are to follow us.”

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Book:Push and Pull

Source: Push and Pull

“For a decade, I've known I will never again have everything, and so all I've wanted is to believe that, someday, again, I'll have enough.”

Book:Book Lovers

Source: Book Lovers

“You have limited time and needs. Being content with very few things may be difficult but then being content with many things is even more difficult. Gauge the needs and ascertain the time you have.”

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“Maybe home for some is always the one they lost.”

Book:All the Seas of the World

Source: All the Seas of the World

“The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up somewhere else, never sat home, only away.”

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Book:All the Seas of the World

Source: All the Seas of the World

“O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys; But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone, Till I found the pleasure past and a winter come at last, Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast And boyhood’s pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done, Till vanished was the morning spring and set the summer sun And winter fought her battle strife and won.”

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Book:Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

“She didn't know the songs," I recall being told that a friend of a friend had said after an attempt to repeat the experience.”

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Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“don't always insure yourself against failure, otherwise you won't fully commit”

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“Les livres sont des fantômes. Les lettres ne valent guère mieux, qui se construisent à même l'absence de ceux qu'on aime. Même les plus belles, les plus tendres, les plus émouvantes ne cessent de chuchoter : je ne suis pas là.”

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Book:Les ombres blanches

Source: Les ombres blanches

“Tell me something about her," he whispers. "Something good." "I didn't know anything." My voice cracks, and I clear my throat. "I knew her for weeks? Months? And I never even asked her anything worthwhile about her family or what it was like when she was young or- or what she wanted or what she hoped for. Because I thought we had more time.”

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Source: A Torch Against the Night