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"There were things I couldn’t say; I could only write them. Because
when I s oke, I thought; and when I wrote, I felt."

“You know, we’re the loneliest
siblings in the world,” he said

" You always remember more clearly
things you’re emotionally close to at any given moment."

“So you know that feeling,” I said calmly, “when life has been poisoned
by something, right from the start. "

“Maybe you’re not writing on paper, but you’re doing it in your head,”
she said, in her quiet voice, and touched my arm. “You always have. You’re
a rememberer and a preserver, you just can’t help it.”

“I mean, if you spend all your life running in
the wrong direction, could it be the right one after all?”

"I realized once more
that I liked her, that I’d missed her these ast few months, that she was real.
A erson to whom I meant something."

"And if
you just do what you’ve always done, you’ll just get what you’ve always
got.”

"I tumbled through the air and flew away, further and further, as
if I were flying home"

" why do you so often
long for solitude in comany when you can scarcely bear to be alone
anymore?"