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“To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Going to die is the biggest waffly thing of all. No one will tell you anything. You ask them questions and they cough and change the subject.”
― Sally Nicholls, Ways To Live Forever

“In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes