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“The intimacy of friendship, he wrote, lies in the sensation of recognizing oneself in the eyes of another. We continue to know our friend, even after they are no longer present to look back at us. From that very first encounter, we are always preparing for the eventuality that we might outlive them, or they us. We are already imagining how we may someday remember them.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

“There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Truckers