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I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones: Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now so will you be.…Now death is un-cool, old-fashioned. To my
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“Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”
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“Yet he supposed a lot of finding out happened like this: completely by accident. You were just going along, minding your own business and all at once the past side-swiped you.”
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
“He looked at the road quite a lot now. Sometimes the white line was solid, sometimes it was broken, and sometimes it was double, like streetcar tracks. He wondered how people could ride over this road all the other days of the year and not see the pattern of life and death in that white paint. Or did they see, after all?”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
“He was more than a little afraid of his mom, and this fear was only partly caused by how angry she could get and how long she could bear a grudge. Mostly it grew from an unhappy sense of being loved only a little and needing to protect what love there was.”
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
“Carol's shoulder was ugly, but not as bad as Bobby had feared. Perhaps few things were once you were looking right at them.”
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
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