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religion is important whether or not we believed in one, in the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.
“religion is important whether or not we believed in one, in the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Children begin by needing their parents. Over time, they reject them. Eventually, they become them.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“Did you know,” a doctor named Mark Souweidane told me on a visit to Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York, “that when we put chemo through an IV to treat a brain tumor, only three percent of it actually gets to the brain? There’s something called a blood/brain barrier, a membrane that’s very selective about what it lets in. Three percent. The rest just stays in the bloodstream.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
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