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81 " Life is a near-death experience. "
― Camille Pagán , Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
82 " time was a suggestion, and the end a choice. "
83 " seats to choose from; I took one behind him to the right, "
84 " Well, technically, we’re seeing balls of nuclear fusion from billions of years before we were born. But as far as I’m concerned, I’m experiencing them at this very moment, so they exist in the present. They happened in the past, but they’re still real now. "
85 " I like astronomy. It has a lot to tell us about the human condition. "
86 " Personally, I don’t care very much about everything working out perfectly, but I’m not going to not take a chance because of all the what-ifs involved.” I "
87 " Great mother of pearl! Liquor was powerful stuff. "
88 " it’s not terribly surprising that after my adult life fell apart in the span of a few short hours and continued to crumble in the days that followed, my instinct was to re-create the people-less bubble that once brought me peace. "
89 " Smart girl. Don’t look back too much, you know? You’re not going that way. "
90 " You can’t grow up on a beach without getting sand in the cracks of your brain. "
91 " And I agreed, even though it was a lie against my soul. It "
92 " I operated as though I would succeed; obstacles be damned. There’s always a reason why things might not work out. Millions of them. The more you focus on those reasons, the easier it will be to get in your own damn way. "
93 " You’re not saying I have cancer, are you?” I asked, attempting to help him clarify—as surely this was not what he meant. "
94 " Love guts you, then saunters away as the vultures swoop down to steal what’s left. "
95 " His theory is that in order to function, most people have to ignore reality, or at least most of it. "
96 " So you don’t believe in heaven.” “I didn’t say that. I mean, sure, it sounds cozy, but who knows? Most people don’t really care about heaven. I think they worry about being relevant to other living people, even after they’re dead. But one day there won’t be anyone left who fits that bill. One day this planet will combust, and we’ll all turn into star stuff. Cleopatra? Abe Lincoln? Adam and Eve? Relevant to no one.” “Well, that’s optimistic. "
97 " Don’t look back too much, you know? You’re not going that way. "
98 " wanted a chance to be wrinkled and deaf and without a care in the world, confident I had lived fully and completely in the way that only the old can. "
99 " Dr. Sanders kept yammering, oblivious to the fact that I was looking right through him. “So, chemo. I’d like you to— "
100 " Most of my favorite films—Lucia y el sexo, Los amantes del círculo polar, Piedras—were set in Spain, but I had a particular weakness for the Mexican Y tu mamá también. In it, the thirty-something Luisa meets two teen "