

“The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water.”
― Narcotics Anonymous
― Narcotics Anonymous

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
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(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
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“I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.”
― Glow
― Glow
“Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.”
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