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Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and ...more
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Marianne Cronin
“I think the same is true of dying. We can’t know why you are dying in the same way that we can’t know why you are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and you can’t know either until you have done both.”
Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Devin Murphy
“I wished I had been there when the bombs fell, to have opened my mouth and swallowed their ordinance. Then spit it all back at them.”
Devin Murphy, The Boat Runner

Marianne Cronin
“Lenni," she said softly, "you're the bravest person I know."
"Why?"
"You just are," she said, and the moment fell between us."
"Dying isn't brave," I said, "it's accidental. I'm not brave, I'm just not dead yet.”
Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Jojo Moyes
“She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.”
Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

Marianne Cronin
“We can’t know why we are dying in the same way we can’t know why we are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and toy can’t know either until you have done both.”
“That’s poetic. And ironic.”
Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

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