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She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it. - [Mind] Nobody wanted me to know. But I wanted to know. - After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, And Flew Away [Curiosity] God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath. - Bellefleur [Blessings : Wrath] Is this fair? You leave your home in Salthill-on-Hudson on the muggy afternoon of July Fourth for a cookout (an invitation you didn't really want to accept, but somehow accepted) and return days later as ashes in a cheesy-looking funeral urn: bone chunks and chips and coarse gritty powder to be dumped out, scattered, and raked in the crumbly soil of your own garden. Fertilizer for weeds. - Middle Age (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] How death enters your life. A telephone ringing. - Middle Age (pt. I, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not. - The Deaths: An Elegy [Memory] You learn not to look back, anything you're walking away from. You don't cry. If you do, it isn't you. - The Rise of Life on Earth [Future : Learning] One warm evening in August 1937 a girl in love stood before a mirror. - Them [Books (First Lines)] For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? - Ugly [Hope : Hurt : Irony] We were the Mulvaneys, remember us? - We Were the Mulvaneys [Books (First Lines)] Felix thought, that the sport wasn't a sport at all. It was just life speeded up. - You Must Remember This [Sport] Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be. - You Must Remember This [Maturity]
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