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“I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“My heart felt like a balloon that was filling too full, and I panicked. I might get the bends, the way scuba divers did when they surfaced too fast.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“There’s no single right way to say goodbye to someone you love. But the most important thing is that you keep some part of them inside you.”
― The Thing About Jellyfish
― The Thing About Jellyfish
“What is missing from this liberal approach is any critical assessment of what problems the state is asking the police to solve and whether the police are really the best suited to solve them.”
― The End of Policing
― The End of Policing
“I missed her so much that I wanted to build a hundred-foot memorial to her with my bare hands. I wanted to see her sitting in a vast stone chair in Hyde Park, enjoying her view. Everybody passing could comprehend how much I miss her. How physical my missing is. I miss her so much it is a vast golden prince, a concert hall, a thousand trees, a lake, nine thousand buses, a million cars, twenty million birds and more. The whole city is my missing her. Eugh,”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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