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The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

The strong don't necessarily survive, but the mean invariably do.

I have often thought that poetry is a way to name loss, but it cannot accompany one on the journey of loss.

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

You can't undo actions with words.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

Forgetting takes practice ... You have to work at it.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way. That has been a surprisingly pleasant lesson to learn in life.

Perhaps effort doesn't matter, it isn't what ensures survival.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.

Flight is not the astonishing thing. I have always thought that the miracle of birds is not that they fly, but that they touch down.

I like the candor of dogs. They're always honest about what they're feeling.

I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.

Loneliness is sometimes cured by visiting with people, and sometimes it's made worse by the same thing.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to.

Sometimes life seems very unfair.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

The period before something learns to be afraid is the most dangerous of all, because it is then the creatures are the most vulnerable.

Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know. Still sharp."
"Forgetting takes practice," says Enid. "You have to work at it.

The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.