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1 " To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. "
― Chris Womersley , Bereft
2 " After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it. "
3 " A story is a wondrous invention. "
4 " We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. "
5 " One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible. "
6 " False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all. "
7 " It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end. "
8 " Stories are rarely only stories "
9 " When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course. "
10 " Like a bizarre spider unaccustomed to its surfeit of appendages, four drunken soldiers lurched arm in arm down the passage. "
11 " To feel nothing, to know nothing, to be nothing, to have nothing. No wonder man invented heaven. "
12 " His smile, he knew, was now lopsided and somewhat sinister, as if one half of him were amused while the other unimpressed by the same joke. "
13 " She tucked an apostrophe of hair back from her eyes. "