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My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.
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Chang-rae Lee
“And though the implication is that I am the sort who is always careful and preparing, I that that's not right, either' in fact I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in a lonely dream of an oblivion, the nothing-of-nothing drift from one pulse beat to the next, which is really the most bloodless marking-out, automatic and involuntary. [pp. 320-321]”
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Hadley Vlahos
“I reminded myself to live for today, not the fears of tomorrow—a promise I had made to myself when I started working in hospice.”
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“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
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Lisa See
“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
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Lisa See
“All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.”
Lisa See, Peony in Love

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