Nothing is ever certain.
Alice Sebold
He would find his Susie, inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.
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Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-stripped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.
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Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density?
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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