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“Even if the victim dies, even if their body is cremated, leaving nothing but the charred remains of bone, that substance cannot be obliterated.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“It's the soldiers, not him, that your death should have weighed on, so why did he grow so old before his time, so much quicker than all his friends? Is he still troubled by thoughts of revenge? Whenever I think this, my heart sinks.”

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“Who would've though that such a sweet, sensitive boy as that would end up scrapping with your middle brother? That now, more than twenty years down the line, they'd find it so painful even to be in the same room, barely able to exchange more than a handful of words?”

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“Only the young can be so stubborn, so decisive in the face of their own fear.”

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“After your brothers have come and gone my days seem that much emptier, and I mostly just sit out on the veranda warming myself in the sun.”

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“The big chunks of granite made it prime territory for hide-and-seek, for shouting "the hibiscus has bloomed" at the top of their voices.”

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