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“Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Some things cannot be erased through silence. Some people have that power over you, whether you like it or not. I begin to see that now. Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and the after.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, electrical signals, and hormones that elicit feelings... feeling drives memory, populates the moving pictures we see.”
― Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

“This wasn't distraction or entertainment: here was a book that seemed to have been written for me, which lifted me up into its realm and united me with something that seemed to have been there all along and that I seemed to be a part of. It felt as if the words and the thoughts of the narrator - despite their agony, despite their pain - healed some of my agony and my pain, simply by existing.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark