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“On the instant we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.”

“Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.”

“All human odes are essentially one: “My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it.””

"Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow."

“I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”

“If they saw different world what they knew was the same. That the train would sit there slowly decomposing for all eternity and that no train would ever run again.”

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.”

“Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.”

“I write because I so deeply want to speak. Though writing only gives me the full measure of silence.”