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“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“He wanted, one day, to be a person who went out of his way to find out what made other people happy.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves: A New York Times Notable Book and Sprawling Irish-American Adult Fiction Novel

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven