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“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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“You’re not from around here, are you?” asked the room service girl.
“No,” I replied. “That’s why I’m staying at a hotel . . .”
― Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories
“No,” I replied. “That’s why I’m staying at a hotel . . .”
― Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories
“I thought I’d let go of the shame about this part of my life, the way I was basically medicating myself twenty-four hours a day. It’s no different from what millions of people do, good people who are in pain or unsure of where to turn; good people who need a break from everything in this world that’s hard and sad and unforgiving.”
― Georgie, All Along
― Georgie, All Along
“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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