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She has been privileged twice so far to watch death growing close: the quieting, the last preparation, the decision at the final moment to go alone or in the presence of a chosen other, the breathing changing, growing shallow, then
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A very haunting description of death. Even though it is not always peaceful, this does not seem as frightening. I especially like the reference to the experience being brief and seen only once.
“Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband's. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick. All households had their mysteries, their particular forms of dysfunction.”
― Before You Know Kindness
― Before You Know Kindness
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”
― Secrets of Eden
― Secrets of Eden
“Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.”
― Secrets of Eden
― Secrets of Eden
“Bea giggles. It is, very likely, the sound that the earth made the first time it saw the sun come up.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.”
― The Law of Similars
― The Law of Similars
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