“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
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“There’s got to be some light in a corner somewhere.”
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“We are the ones who are alive. Here. With everything to lose”
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“The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we’re
lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.”
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lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.”
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“There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how things might have danced, if we had only dared to be bright.”
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