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Amy Oshima
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Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.
“Sometimes it's hard to know if someone is insulting or just an American.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“But death is when you are allowed to ask foolish questions and to say all the unforgivable things that will be immediately forgiven.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“I thought about how the world can be anything and how said it is that it's this.”
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
“His skin is wrinkled and droops. An old man's imperfect torso. Years on display in that sagging skin: quiet moments of pride and shame, excitement and fear, joy, guilt, desire, happiness, loss, love. I can see it. All of it and more. Just like my own.”
― We Spread
― We Spread
“The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I had a total and complete understanding of him.”
― We Spread
― We Spread
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