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41 " Mommy," you say quietly, so as not to be overheard. "Do you know how, when you love someone and you know they are hurting, it hurts you, too? "
― Natasha Trethewey , Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
42 " As the smoke rose from the car toward the skyline, I couldn’t help thinking that, at any moment, everything we had would be consumed by flames. "
43 " If not immanence,the soul's bright anchor--blood passed from one to the other--what knowledge haunts each body,what history, what phantom ache? One man alwayslow, in a grave or on the ground, the otherup high, closer to heaven; one man always diseased,the other a body in service, plundered. "
― Natasha Trethewey , Thrall
44 " Geography is fate. "
45 " But the photograph hints, too, at another story. I can see it in the tall grass brushing her ankles, the blades bent as if moved by wind. "