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“I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.”

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“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be”

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“I ain’t scared to lend a hand I ain’t scared to clench it either”

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“Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.”

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“You'ld think I'ld be used to saying good bye to you by now.”

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“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the loss of those light-hearted mornings of the desert, for that wind that made one a boy again. He had noticed that this peculiar quality in the air of new countries vanished after they were tamed by man and…

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