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“Someday, you’ll feel thankful to your mother. But I want you to act thankful now.” These are the last words he ever says to her. (Or are they the last words that she can remember? Did he say something more? There is no one to ask.)

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Belle’s Quotes

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: friendship, heart, kindness

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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.”
― Michael Shaara

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