Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you - only when it doesn't.
("Tuck Everlasting")
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No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late.Natalie Babbitt
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
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