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61 " estranged. "
― Paula Hawkins , Into the Water
62 " Everyone was embarrassed. She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner came into contact. At first it was acknowledged and respected and deferred to. But after a while it got in the way—of conversation, of laughter, of normal life. Everyone wanted to put it behind them, to get on with things, and there you were, in the way, blocking the path, dragging the body of your dead child behind you. "
63 " No era un lugar propicio para suicidarse, era un lugar propicio para librarse de mujeres conflictivas "
64 " I thought how odd it was that parents believe they know their children, understand their children. Do they not remember what it was like to be eighteen, or fifteen, or twelve? Perhaps having children makes you forget being one. I remember you at seventeen and me at thirteen, and I’m certain that our parents had no idea who we were. "
65 " entreated "
66 " Because that is where it begins: with the swimming of witches—the ordeal by water. "
67 " I don’t think anyone would expect you to,” I said softly. “Not—” “Not yet? Which implies that at some point I won’t feel like this. But the thing people don’t seem to realize is that I don’t want to not feel like this. How can I not feel like this? My sadness feels right. It . . . weighs the right amount, crushes me just enough. My anger is clean, it bolsters me. "
68 " As coisas que quero lembrar, não consigo, e as coisas que faço de tudo para esquecer não param de voltar à minha memória. "
69 " Jamais seria uma dessas pessoas que se entregavam à tentação de ceder, de submergir, de fazer tudo desaparecer, mas era sincero o bastante para admitir que até ele podia enxergar a atração pela entrega total e absoluta. "
70 " Watching someone in the throes of raw grief is a terrible thing; the act of watching feels violent, intrusive, a violation. "
71 " No one warned you about that when you were younger, no one told you how slow you would become, and how bored you would be by your slowness. "
72 " What would it be like? Can you imagine? To watch your mother die? "