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The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
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Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
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Marriage is memory, marriage is time.... Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.
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Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.
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Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
December 5, 1934
Died:
December 23, 2021
(aged 87)
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