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1 " Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving. "
― Jeff Zentner , Goodbye Days
2 " For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone. "
3 " Es curioso como la memoria elimina las partes aburridas. Y eso la convierte en un buen editor "
4 " A liquid rose-gold warmth— whatever color is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the color of aloneness—fils me briefly. "
5 " I think if what you’d do for your last day on Earth doesn’t look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life.” “I agree.” I guess a Buick in a Waffle House parking lot is as good a place as any to have your notion of a well-lived life cracked open wider than the Grand Canyon. "
6 " I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I'm going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I'll never know. "
7 " Funny how people move through this world leaving little pieces of their story with the people they meet, for them to carry. Makes you wonder what'd happen if all those people put their puzzle pieces together. "
8 " Sometimes, though, you want to remember every minute you spent with someone. You want to remember even the most mundane moments. You wish you had inhabited them more completely, and marked them with yourself more indelibly - not in spite of their ordinariness, but because of it. But you only discover this when it's too late "
9 " Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain. "
10 " There comes a point when you realize that you can never make someone like you, or even stop hating you, and the only defense you have left is the ultimate one--not giving a shit anymore. "
11 " Grief is weird. It seems to come in these waves out of nowhere. One minute I'm standing in the ocean, fine. The next minute I'm drowning. "
12 " Be honest. Be humble. Listen more than you talk. "
13 " Funny how people move through this world leaving little pieces of their story with the people they meet, for them to carry. "
14 " I think if what you'd do for your last day on Earth doesn't look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life. "
15 " My mind twirls with mysteries. The eternities. Life. Death. I can't stop it. It's like staring in the mirror for too long or saying your name too many times and becoming disconnected from any sense of yourself. I begin to wonder if I'm even still alive; if I exist. "
16 " When he was sad, he never used it as an occasion to make anyone else sad. "
17 " Night descends as a falling blanket. The city is a constellation of lights, each one representing a hand that turned the lightbulb. A hand attached to a mind containing a universe of memories and myths; a natural history of loves and wounds.Life everywhere. Pulsing, humming. A great wheel turning. A light blinks out here, one replaces it there. Always dying. Always living. We survive until we don’t. All of this ending and beginning is the only thing that is infinite. "
18 " Pareidolia. One of my favorite words. It's when your mind sees a pattern you recognize where there isn't one. Like seeing a face in the moon. or shapes in the clouds."Dr. Mendez smiles and says, mostly to himself, "Pareidolia. What a beautiful word.""For something that isn't always beautiful.""For something that isn't always beautiful. "
19 " No one knows how anybody lives through anything. People just do. "
20 " Don't think that way," my mom says. "We need to think positively."How's this: I am positively fucked. "
