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"Who wants to die? Everything stuggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way."

"I believe that absence has a consistency, like the dark water of a river, like oil, some kind of sticky dirty liquid that you can struggle abd perhaps drown in. It has a thickness like night, an indefinite space with no landmarks, nothing to bang against, where you reach for a light, some small glimmer, something to hang on to and guide you. But absence is, first and foremost, silence...."

"Understanding the present cannot be achieved until the present has become the past."