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The sun was not down yet. Thin hope, then.

"It was a spooky old place."

It's the living who are the exceptions, not the dead.

Ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry.

Maybe she was very brave.

What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling.

The ground was bad.

The house was melancholy, the tunnels claustrophobic—but they were hers.

'It's time I started living my life for me.'

She told me I was her favorite grandchild and that I was going to grow up to be something special.

A change was coming, and nobody knew it but me.

He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence.

"I hate meeting things on the road at night."

"I think writer and reader are participating together in a kind of miracle."

“It’s not weak, you know. To feel things deeply, to want things. To need.”

Elsa hadn’t known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.

Mom and Grandma were warrior women.

Is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Fearing death is just resistance to change.

One by one, they’re coming for us.

I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg coiled around his.

I knew that our minutes were numbered, but I didn’t dare count them, just as I knew where all this was headed, but didn’t care to read the signposts.

Knock at my door at night and see if I haven’t already left it ajar for you.

It’s not political to protect kids. There shouldn’t be sides.

I’m beyond his power to break.

He wouldn’t be setting these fires if he didn’t like watching them burn.

But there are still the hours, aren’t there?

Virginia nods. At the moment, she can’t seem to speak. There is so much in the world.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June.

He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness.