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“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“You died in the end, but you fought first.”
― We, the Drowned
― We, the Drowned
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