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Perhaps only against the background of today’s perilous tensions between West and East—and the bloody invasion of Ukraine—can we begin to register the sacrifices of a twenty-year-old woman hell-bent on waging war against tyranny.
“only a handful of people who profess to have had a happy childhood; all the rest are survivors, everyone was given either too much or too little, life is always a long journey of healing from childhood.”
― How to Love Your Daughter
― How to Love Your Daughter
“That’s the worst thing about death: you want to tell your loved one things, both trivial and life-altering. You start to form in your mind what you’re going to say, anticipate his or her reaction, feel that warm glow of experiences shared between you. Death severs that most primal connection, and that leaves maybe the biggest hole of all. Still,”
― All the Dark Places
― All the Dark Places
“It was summer and it was hot, there was a great deal of sun in the sky and a great deal of sun in my life.”
― How to Love Your Daughter
― How to Love Your Daughter
“Дитина — вона ж відчуває так само, як дорослі, тільки пояснити того не вміє. Ніби мені відкрилися нараз усі ті "секрети", що ми наробили, а потім покинули й ніколи більше до них не навідувалися, — як вони всі й далі лежать там, у землі. Всі наші запечатані дружби, сльози, клятви… Наші маленькі життя, накриті скельцями, — як експонати у мами в музеї. Такий величезний музей покинутих "секретів". А люди по ньому ходять — і навіть не здогадуються, що він там, у них під ногами…”
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
“If you weren't my friend I wouldn't know who I was, she said.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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