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“He opened his eyes and smiled. “Back so soon?” And then again to sleep. So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Robert dying: creating silence. Myself, destined to live, listening closely to a silence that would take a lifetime to express.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“His voice, I remember it sounding like Christmas morning and my birthday and Valentine’s Day and home and I loved him.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks

“We never had any children,” he said ruefully. “Our work was our children.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids