What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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She always wanted to believe in things.

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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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