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Mark Z. Danielewski
Noli me tangere,noli me legere
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David Mitchell _ Slade House
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger's cat inside a box you can never ever open.
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Kate DiCamillo _ The Magician's Elephant
, though Peter. 'Eat,' said Leo Matienne again, very gently.Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full in the face. And then he ate."
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Kate DiCamillo _ Raymie Nightingale
Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.
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Kate DiCamillo _ The Miraculous Journey of
Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. {page 103}
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Emily Giffin _ Heart of the Matter
...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...
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Charles Bukowski _ Factotum
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
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Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Wounded Land
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
No longer married, suddenly I was . From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
What clear is that meaning may not be something we . We found no meaning in our son's death, or in the deaths of countless others. The most we could hope was that we might be able to meaning.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
Shaken by emotional storms, I realized that choosing to feel guilt, however painful, somehow seemed to offer reassurance that such events did not happen at random.... If guilt is the price we pay for the illusion that we have some control over nature, many of us are willing to pay it. I was. To begin to release the weight of guilt, I had to let go of whatever illusion of control it pretended to offer, and acknowledge that pain and death are as natural as birth, woven inseparably into our human nature.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe; no doubt that's one reason why people still tell the story of Adam and Eve, which interprets suffering that way.
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