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“If he dies, I'll never be able to tell him that I can't stand the thought of looking up and not seeing him near.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

“I knew I was supposed to feel relieved, but I felt despairing. I didn’t want to look out the window. Loss is loss is loss.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“I stood up and looked in his direction, at his folded hands. Between then there seemed to rest a sunflower.
At last I made up my mind and without a word I left the room.”
― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

“When you lose that many parts of yourself, it hurts. And when you realize those parts are irreplaceable, you become lost too.”
― Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You