She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of … - Charles Frazier

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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Charles Frazier

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

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Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

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We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

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Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

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She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

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No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

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With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after. " Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

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