If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
Michael Morpurgo
Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.
death
We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.
survival music holocaust
If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.
religion
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
war
When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.
age
He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
experience education learning doing school observation
When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.
parenting family parents mother baby
I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.
hate
There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
magic miracles
Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
brotherhood comfort brothers charlie
letting-go
You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.
boats sea
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
boats sailing sea
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
emotional
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