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Jay Cagle

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Jay’s Quotes

“We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

tags: death, history

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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: art

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“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

tags: fathers, grief, memories, parents

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“She barely notices when I say that I am going on to Toronto to visit my grandparents. Except to remark that they must be really old. Not a word about Alister. Not even a bad word. She would not have forgotten. Just tidied up the scene and put it away in a closet with her former selves. Or maybe she really is a person who can deal recklessly with humiliation.”
― Alice Munro, Dear Life

tags: humiliation

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