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“Yes, there is yet one way to where she is, / Bitter, but one that faith may never miss. / Out of the grave I come to tell you this— / To tell you this.”
― Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected Poems of Edwin A. Robinson

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, /
Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
― Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See