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"The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children."
"But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say."
"I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around."
"I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it."
"He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him."
"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light."
"I know so many last words. But I will never know hers."
"The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood."
"It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come."
"Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard."
"Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me."
"The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve."
"Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel."
"I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile."
"And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college."
"But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley"
"I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor."
"He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was."
"I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt."
"We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now."