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Jasmine
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My Friends
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Ted’s chest hurts, like crying without oxygen, because grief does so many strange things to people, and one of those things is that we forget how to breathe. As if the body’s first instinct is to grieve itself to death. Soon Ted will stand
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“It’s the incomprehensibility of death that drives people mad, so that we forget how to breathe and how to walk, until we spend whole nights stumbling about in dark rooms, calling and calling, trying to understand how there can be a phone number that no longer belongs to anyone.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.”
― Fly Away
― Fly Away
“Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life. What Bird will learn, then: That his mother is fallible. That she is only human, too.”
― Our Missing Hearts
― Our Missing Hearts
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