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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your hea...more

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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happ...more

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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

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Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant gra...more

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It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A chil...more

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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

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I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done...more

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If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

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I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only ...more

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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, th...more

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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a t...more