Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.~The Moon Master

~ Clara Diane Thompson

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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

~ Jasper Fforde

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Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

~ Barry Lyga

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Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.

~ Peter Heller

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