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I felt clean and light. Jamie’s smile had taken away everything all the way back to my first mistake. There was no breech, no split, no Donna, no Michael, no Stacey, no Pentridge, no Echuca High. Jamie had rubbed out all the wrong words I ...more
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Damon Galgut
“As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”
Damon Galgut, The promise

Damon Galgut
“What happens in a room lingers there invisibly, all deeds, all words, always. Not seen, not heard, except by some, and even then imperfectly. In this very room both birth and death have taken place. Long ago, maybe, but the blood is still visible on certain days, when time wears thin.”
Damon Galgut, The Promise

Voltaire
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
Voltaire

Damon Galgut
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It's just the living part we still have to work out.”
Damon Galgut, The Promise

B.K.S. Iyengar
“Meditation is oneness, when there is no longer time, sex, or country. The moment when, after you have concentrated on doing a pose (or anything else) perfectly, you hold it and then forget everything, not because you want to forget but because you are concentrated: this is meditation.”
B.K.S. Iyengar, Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar

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