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Just because somebody is gone doesn’t mean they don’t exist anymore—with a little imagination, you’re never alone.
“No. It was a place I felt I knew.” “Probably just old memories. Everything gets mixed up in nightmares.”
doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.”
“Imagination and reality are often incompatible,”
Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.”
Every important moment in our lives has a particular scent.”
Even if I don’t remember anything from those days, I know we had them together, and when I’m trying to fall asleep at night, I don’t think about how my parents are gone, but about what their lives must have been like here. It’s a wonderful change.”
“We all need somebody’s help. Nobody can do anything worthwhile on their own.”
It’s difficult to mourn somebody’s death when you didn’t have the chance to say goodbye. I miss them as much today as I did during the first days after I lost them.”
one person’s courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.
