Marisa Silver Quotes

#1. But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

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#2. Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

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#3. A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.

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#4. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

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#5. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

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#6. Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.

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#7. the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention.

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#8. Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

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