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“That's okay. That's all right. He had treated life the way it should always be: long and short at the same time. He had tried so hard because he always felt guilty, but he also always felt hopeful. Naively hopeful. Foolishly so. But you had to be, he concluded, falling down into the snow, the wires in his legs smoking. You had to be.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Candelaria

“Love was a pox for her family that she had quarantined herself from for years.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Candelaria

“...for people take the conviction of the venerability of the dead together with them into the beyond and uphold it ten times as much from there.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“The corpse does not come alive, indeed is not even saved, but it can pull the man down.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923