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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Lavinia

    In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand."
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Other Wind

    I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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  3. Paulo Coelho _ Eleven Minutes

    No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
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  4. Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love

    These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all."
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  5. Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love

    The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a dog, a bird, a plant that always leans to the left. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food in the night it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.
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  6. Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love

    Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.
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  7. Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love

    She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world.
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  8. Louise Fitzhugh _ Harriet the Spy

    WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Fight Club

    Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
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  11. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.
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  12. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    What did I do to make Mommy leave?""You didn't do anything. This isn't your fault.""Then why?" she'd wailed."I don't know," her daddy had said, and he looked so sad."It isn't fair!""No, it isn't, baby. Not by a mile. The world's only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
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