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“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she has slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.”
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“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.
And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.”
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And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.”
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“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.”
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