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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

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...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

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Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradual...more

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Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

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To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch t...more

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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: to...more

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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

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It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.