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“As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“But how could he have known? We can’t know the future; we can only know the past. Does that young man in the U-Haul envision his older self: yes, but it is a grand self. He doesn’t envision simply an older version of his current self, wrapped in the trappings he himself has woven, leaving that original living core to struggle ceaselessly against the woven forgery. He certainly doesn’t envision a middle-aged man, alone and weeping the edge of a church in a place where he was his best self, acknowledging the impossibility of returning to the self he once was in order to change the future. And even if he could return, would he do anything differently?”
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“Loneliness invades the soul late afternoon. Sundown can test you with its flood of color, but once it's full dark you're fine.”
― Fencing the Sky
― Fencing the Sky
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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