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Jay Cagle

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Jay’s Quotes

“...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: art

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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“Only when the little charade was nearly complete did Frances understand what it was all about. The spot at which Lilian had been grasping lay just above her heart. She had been drawing an imaginary stake from it.”
― Sarah Waters

tags: lesbian, romance

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“We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

tags: death, history

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“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

tags: fathers, grief, memories, parents

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