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“Unfair, to have just one attempt at ripeness, a few brief years of possibility before sweetness turns to rot.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“Better prepare for a new journey than contemplate the meaning of the one I had just taken,”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“The way a memory is real, but also not real.” I spoke quickly, with bravado. “If time is one long line and we’re all moving across it, there has to be a place we’re headed, and a place that we’ve just left. Obviously, the memory is the place that we left.” Rafe seemed impressed.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
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