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“For those who do not wish to read realistic depictions of death and dead bodies, you have stumbled onto the wrong book.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
― Émile Zola

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“The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Perfectly Good Family

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“A chronicler in Italy described how bodies were layered in the ground- bodies then some dirt, bodies then some more dirt- "just as one makes lasagna with layers of pasta and cheese.”
― Caitlin Doughty

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“When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

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