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"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him". - By the river Piedra, I sat down and wept

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When someone you love dies, and you are not expecting it, you don;t lose her at all once, you lose her in pieces over a long time- the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even  from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes- when there's particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever -there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."

-John Irving, A prayer for Owen Meany

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“People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”-Stephen Carpenter, Killer

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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