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last updated: November 28, 2023

The death of a beloved is an amputation.
-- C. S. Lewis

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Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.
-- Gail Caldwell

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.163, Random House

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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
-- Marge Piercy

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“My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.”
“Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?”
“I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.”
“When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: â€˜It happened.â€™ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.”

Source : "Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold". Work by Simon Conway Morris, January 7, 2000.
“I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.”
“I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.”
“I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.”
“There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.”
“Be fully awake if you want to dream”
“It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.”