One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.
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But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.
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A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
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