"Life is a hurricane, and we board up……" — Jesmyn Ward

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we… - Jesmyn Ward

"Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages."

— Jesmyn Ward

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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? — Pope Paul VI
I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries. — Kelley Armstrong
The secret anniversaries of the heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. — Mark Twain
Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness. — Robert Bridges

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