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“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.”
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“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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