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“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“Butterflies are like women— we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.”
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“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“the loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools...It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction.”
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“Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
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