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“It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.”
― Sea Change
― Sea Change
“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.”
― Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
― Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”
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“The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?”
― Magic's Pawn
― Magic's Pawn
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