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“We hear his cries and shiver with awe because to cry means to live. Which I guess answers my own question: they want to preserve this pain because they want to preserve this life. This baby has already survived more than many of them do. And in spite of the pain that was and is and is certain to come, happiness blankets the room like a sunbath. Even I am not immune.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“A mother stays even when she's gone, like a muted moon in the daytime sky.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“this is where it starts. We begin to say goodbye as soon as we say hello. Death is a corollary of birth, and to welcome life is to guarantee loss.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“Shh, shh. Your mom will be here soon to feed you. We’re here at the beginning. I’ll paint a bottle of milk for you. I will not throw it. But I left my white crayon under the table. If we can’t take a drive, how about a little walk? I wake. Startle. She has been fed. Grown up. Hated me. Loved me again. I am old. Dying. And she is still here. This is a forgiveness I never gave my own father. But—Georgette! I close my eyes. Georgette.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
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