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“Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill…

— Jennifer Irwin

“No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn’t given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them.”

— Stephen King

“Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.”

— Erin Merryn

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were…

— Daphne du Maurier

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley

“Surprisingly, I came closer to really knowing myself, not because I feared death, because we were always aware of it, but rather because I…

— Aleida March

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.”

— Rachel Ward

“I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was through-I knew…

— Carolyn Jessop

“When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.”

— Clarice Lispector