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“To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.”

“To be somewhere new, when the world has felt so stale and familiar.”

“But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening…why life’s moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”

it’s getting hard to keep reading this … might need to continue on to the next

“It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it so be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you. Strange how every object or word can house a ghost.”

“Rose sighed. I can remember her sighs. They were rarely sad sighs. They always had a sense of this is the way things are and how they are going to be and that is perfectly fine about them.”

“Forever…is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How do you live? I am drifting away.”