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As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.
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I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.
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The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.
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To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.
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It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.
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I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.
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Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn't imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me didn't share my enthusiasm for the written word. Some might sit for a good story while told, but if a book had no pictures they showed scant interest.
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Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.
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Love makes us do wicked things.
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I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.
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Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.
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Imaginary friends often leave without warning.
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The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.
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Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic.
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O que a memoria perde, a imaginacao volta a criar.
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Keith Donohue |
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Between the covers, a book can be a sin.
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Keith Donohue |
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Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.
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In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under his bed.
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Keith Donohue |
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He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her.
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Never enter a toy shop after midnight.
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Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.
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Keith Donohue |
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He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.
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Pretty soon he would be stronger than she was, and bigger, some real violence in his fist. The day was coming when the ordinary demons of adolescence would wrestle with his private devils, and it could be a hell.
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In setting down these recollections of my early years so far removed from their unfolding, I am fooled, as all are, by time itself. My parents, long gone from my world, live again. Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one true earthly consolation when time slips out of joint." Chapter 6, The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue "Assembled in a small circle, our faces glowed in the flickering ligh..
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