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“Someone once told me the way to die happy is to die complete. To live like you eat a delicious meal. To devour and enjoy every course so that when you have finished you are full, and enjoyed every mouthful, but aren’t too sad there is no more.”

“This is the challenge of life, isn’t it? Moving forward without annihilating what has gone before. Knowing what to clasp onto and what to release without destroying yourself. Trying not to be the meteor and the dinosaur at once.”

“When you have been a teacher, you always see the child in everyone. You imagine what they would have been like in class. Especially those who were just one step on front of that childhood.”

“I was there, but not there. I was watching myself in the third person. A character in a life that looked like mine but wasn’t. I missed him so much, but also I felt like I was missing myself too. That’s the thing with grief. The way it sinks you into death as well… You are out there breathing and seeing and talking but you aren’t properly alive any more.”