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“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.”

— Deborah Levy

“Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside. A face no one recognized because it was so happy. There could be…

— Soman Chainani

“...how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.”

— Kate Atkinson

“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”

— Steven Ramirez

“It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.”

— Eloise Dyson

“She realized that adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one--that no one else could quite understand.”

— Eva Ibbotson

“Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.”

— David Nicholls

“I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”

— Donna Tartt

“Agatha longed to forget about the whole thing and go home, go to bed and cuddle up to her cats.”

— M.C. Beaton

“They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.”

— Lois Lowry