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Emma Straub
“All her life, she'd thought of death as the single moment, the heart stopping, the final breath, but now she knew that it could be much more like giving birth, with nine months of preparations. Her father was heavily pregnant with death, and there was little to do but wait.”
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“a collective sigh of relief, as if a cactus had just left a room full of balloons.”
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“You said a brave man helps but a coward gives presents.”
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“The way you spend your days is the way you spend your life.”
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Emma Straub
“all her life, she’d thought of death as the single moment, the heart stopping, the final breath, but now she knew that it could be much more like giving birth, with nine months of preparation. Her father was heavily pregnant with death, and there was little to do but wait”
Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

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