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East of Eden
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You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
“A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Lately, though, I find myself thinking about the war and my past, about the people I lost.
Lost.
It makes it sound as if I misplaced my loved ones; perhaps I left them where they don't belong and turned away, too confused to retrace my steps.
They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
― The Nightingale
Lost.
It makes it sound as if I misplaced my loved ones; perhaps I left them where they don't belong and turned away, too confused to retrace my steps.
They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
― The Nightingale
“I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
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