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“How do you ever get over the love of a child? How do you get beyond it?”
― Solace
― Solace
“There was a time when we were not; this gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that there will come a time when we cease to be?’ William Hazlitt,”
― The Quaker Café
― The Quaker Café
“Death sucks. Death sucks, mostly because it forces those who stay behind to survive. Death isn’t merciful enough to take you too. Instead, death constantly jams down your throat the awful lesson that life does indeed go on, no matter what.”
― Missing You
― Missing You
“We desire and love and hate and quarrel and deceive and weep – and in a short while we’re gone and our lives leave no trace, and all those tears and all that laughter might never have happened.”
― The Moment You Were Gone
― The Moment You Were Gone
“You’re supposed to gain things as you grow older in return for the things that you lose. But what had she gained? Dignity? She hadn’t got that. Peace? No. Wisdom? It seemed unlikely. And what had she lost? Beauty, youth, innocence, possibility. Your past grows longer and your future shrinks. And you lose your parents and your children – often at the same time so that you go from being daughter and mother to being neither. What are you then?”
― The Moment You Were Gone
― The Moment You Were Gone
julia Skinner’s 2025 Year in Books
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