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Furthermore, mourning the death of a loved one too strongly could get you charged with subversion. For a soldier, in particular, the official requirement was that their families should be proud of the heroic death in action to protect the
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“Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we’re going to live a long time. Maybe that’s the only way forward.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”
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“This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.”
― Wives of War
― Wives of War
“Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.”
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“All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
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