Scot Gardner Quotes

#1. The parts of my new job that filled me with abject and irrational fear, that twisted me into all kinds of knots, were the raw emotions of those left alive. It was the living who were the great unknown.

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#2. Deal with death every day of my life... in one way or another. You can never tell when it's going to bring you undone.

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#3. I'm the drowning boy. I've been drowning for years.

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#4. Hold on, don't skip all the good bits, I thought. Don't dream me a life without the romance. Let me do the coloring in myself.

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#5. There's no shame," John Barton said quietly. "Funerals are the place for letting it out. They're the last free-for-all in our society. Without them we would all turn to stone from unexpressed emotion.

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#6. Was it courage that made her take the last step, or weakness? Was it loss that walked her to the edge, or a search for freedom?

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#7. The tiny conversation they'd had would reveal no evidence of her frayed edges.

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#8. To truly know death, you'd have to have loved.

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#9. I wanted to tell him more. I had the fleeting desire to tell him a lot more, but old habits and the fear of revealing too much made the words congeal in my throat.

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#10. It wasn't hard to imagine them surrounded by their families as they did the last of their breathing. Said their goodbyes. Kissed cheeks. No luggage to check in. Leave your body with us, I thought. We'll look after that.

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#11. Something was stretched to the point of irreparable damage, and I wanted to bounce on it until it broke.

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#12. The sounds were trapped in the tank with him. His fingers pawed at the wet plastic but could find no hold.

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#13. It gets easier when you've met and dealt with your own grief. It gets easier, but it'll probably never be easy.

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