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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

“I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I told him he had always been with me, part of who I am, just as he is at this moment.”
― 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