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“We prepare for everything, thunking carefully ahead as we put things in our suitcase for a holiday, for example. But we cannot pack for death.”
“I hadn’t realized you could feel angry with people who were suffering more than you were.”
“Caged in the middle of the adult-child Venn diagram, growing too big for it.”

“Oh forever, you are the cruelest trickster of a word.”
“He clapped away a wasp. There’s always a wasp. However good the picnic.”
“And I saw, in a way I hadn’t seen before, how close dying was to living.”
“I guess there are moment when we’d all like to climb out of time.”
“Her eyes said I am sorry for looking like this. For being like this.”