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61 " Clem is my first dead body. I’ve heard again and again—mostly from friends who’ve lost other friends to AIDS—that it’s essential to see the corpse of someone you love, especially someone who’s died undeservedly young; how it will confirm the way nothing else can that he or she is no longer here. The body won’t look like the person you know, the self of that person, at all. This tells you there has to be a soul because something’s missing; what else could that something be? The first thing I know, when I see her, isthat this is not a piece of advice I will ever pass on. "
― Julia Glass , I See You Everywhere
62 " We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree. "
― Julia Glass , And the Dark Sacred Night
63 " It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning. "
64 " Do you think too long a period of nightlessness,” mused Sandra, “could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can? "
65 " Happiness doesn't come easily, just because you want or even deserve it," she said. "I don't think you're too young to know that. So you've got to find your own way to let that happiness in. Sometimes, when it threatens to get away from you, you have to reach out the window and pull it in, like capturing a bird. "
66 " Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens -- but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls. "
― Julia Glass , The Whole World Over
67 " We’re all alive the day before we die. "
― Julia Glass , Three Junes
68 " There were times when he wanted to tell Greenie, outright, that her mother was not the generous, loving woman Greenie presumed her to be, but he knew better. Maybe some fortunate children were born with platinum emotional shields, protecting them from harm and keeping them, also harmlessly, oblivious. "
69 " Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As "
70 " Sometimes I have this feeling,” Walter said, “that he operates on the philosophy that ‘what Walter doesn’t know won’t hurt him. "
71 " Assuming that our energies are sufficient, love is interminable. —JIM HARRISON, The Road Home "
72 " Everybody, will you please just sit for a minute?Like children in a game of musical chairs, Tommy's three guests immediately reach for the nearest chair, pull it out from the table, and sit---even her brother. Well, says Tommy. Something in my life goes according to plan. "
― Julia Glass , A House Among the Trees
73 " Elizabeth Spencer. "
― Julia Glass , The Widower's Tale
74 " I did not wonder if what his absence would spare me was the exhaustion of a longing so relentless it had become nearly unconscious, as if I had failed to realize that the water I drank was salty, always salty. "
75 " What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you’re grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don’t, well then, you don’t. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is. "
76 " Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as "ordinary fellows" or "salt of the earth". Such terms are merely code for men who've led lives in which boyhood dreams become a luxury, a whim, before boyhood even comes to an end. "
77 " At least pretend we have a standing date, someday, for that mother-son field trip we never got to take, thanks to Sam’s draconian call sheets. He should’ve stayed on to run Italy itself. They’d be a superpower! "
78 " the monotony of quiet creativity, imagination fueled by routine and isolation, "
79 " My love of books is a love of what they contain; they hold knowledge as a pitcher holds water, as a dress contains the mystery of a woman’s exquisite body. Their physicality matters—do not speak to me of storing books as bytes! "
80 " All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world. "