Kerissa
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“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Had I seen enough things? When I could no longer see them, would I remember them, and would just the memory be enough to fill me up and make me whole?... Could anyone ever have enough memories?”
― The Salt Path
― The Salt Path
“It's touched you, it's written all over you: you've felt the hand of nature. It won't ever leave you now; you're salted...People fight the elements, the weather, especially here, but when it's touched you, when you let it be, you're never the same again. Good luck, wherever your path takes you.”
― The Salt Path
― The Salt Path
“Most people go through their whole lives without answering their own questions: What am I, what do I have within me? The big stuff. What a waste.”
― The Salt Path
― The Salt Path
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.”
― Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
― Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
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