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They Carried Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
- They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and…
- They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried…
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- I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me… — Yann Martel