“Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.”
― Where Things Come Back
― Where Things Come Back
“When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
― Blue Nights
― Blue Nights
“A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.”
― Blue Nights
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.”
― Blue Nights
“The love between a brother and sister just over a year apart in age held fast. It wasn’t twinship, and it wasn’t romance, but it was more like a passionate loyalty to a dying brand.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
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