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If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die,...more

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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

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There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to...more

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I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

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The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed on top of each other like a child's. ...more

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That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

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From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world t...more