“What can’t be helped must be endured.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“We younger ones began to see that we knew things that never had not been known.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“...this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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