Kerry Kletter Quotes

#1. That's the weirdest thing about being cut off from life. Everything gets washed out or muted or recedes into the background except for other people's laughter. Other people's laughter gets very loud and jarring. It penetrates. It is a reminder that other people live.

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#2. They say the farther away you are from the beach, the louder it sounds. That way it's always with you and you can always find your way back.

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#3. Because just like all the other times I've drowned in my life, I'm determined to keep paddling forward, to believe that none of it has affected me at all.

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#4. I've always had this vision of how my life would end. I wonder if everybody has an idea of their worst imaginable death, an image so explicit you could almost wonder if is is prophetic.

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#5. Suddenly I don't even care that I fell, because of that brief moment when I stood, and I wonder if this is what other people seem to have that I do not--this courage to fall because they have memory of standing.

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#6. Wondering whether it's worse to be with other people and have nowhere to hide or to be so alone that no one can find you.

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#7. There is no one around in any direction as far as I can see, and there is so much peace in that , in the absence of human voices. Sometimes is seems like everybody wants to put their noise into the world until you can't have enough quiet to even know you exist.

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#8. The known universe always feels easier even when it's miserable.

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#9. I wonder if this is what other people seem to have that I do not - this courage to fall because they have the memory of standing. Then

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#10. I have seen this happen before, how one act of parental kindness across a history of cruelty can make a kid in here forgive everything that came before simply because they have been deprived of kindness for so long.

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#11. I stepped inside. It smelled like cleaning fluid and salt: sanitized tears. Not mine, I thought. "You

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#12. The sun is ours. The Atlantic breaks. And we ride it, we ride it, we ride it.

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#13. His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive.

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