- “i don't know if it's not braver to die, but i recognise the habit; the addiction to being alive. so we live past hope.”
- “i remembered the fox. one runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed”
- “if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other, my god that's plenty / my god that's enough / my god that is so so much / for the light to give each of us at each other's backs whispering over and over and over / 'live' / 'live' / 'live'”
- “he loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him.”
- “all you have to be is a being. haunted. that's success. when you're a being, life feels satisfying. everything adds up. every little thing matters. look at what you have. this is where it all begins. all you have to do is open your eyes.”
- “and if you missed a day, there was always the next, and if you missed a year, it didn't matter, the hills weren't going anywhere, the thyme and rosemary kept coming back, the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit.”
- “this earth will grow cold, / a star among stars / and one of the smallest, / a gilded mote on blue velvet- / i mean this, our great earth. / this earth will grow cold one day, / not like a block of ice / or a dead cloud even / but like an empty walnut it will roll along / in pitch-black space ... / you must grieve for this right now / -you have to feel this sorrow now- / for the world must be loved this much / if you're going to say ‘i lived’ ...”
- “you're also the one who showed me that growing up might not be such a bad thing after all.”
- “the journey ends ... but the days continue on. the tough and tender days that i loved.”
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