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“And was friendship that different in the end from love? You took the possibility of sex out of it, and it was all about the moment anyway. Being here, right now, in someone’s life. Making room for someone in yours.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
― Every Last One
― Every Last One
“Well, perhaps the path appears straight when we look back at it. On the way, we often feel lost.”
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“But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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