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Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do... Joan Didion
I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth, Except to say it isn't worth a dime, And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ Leonard Cohen
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place..."
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. Chuck Palahniuk
trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images. Laurell K. Hamilton
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design. Philip K. Dick
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived, this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it... Philip K. Dick
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas? complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. George F. Kennan
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that. Lewis Thomas
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Alfred Lord Tennyson
My heart is so smallit's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look," He answered,"your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world. Rumi
I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on. Jodi Picoult
Oscar Wilde quote: "ALGERNONWell, in the first place girls never marry the men..."
ALGERNONWell, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. Oscar Wilde
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply... John Steinbeck

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