Ari Berk Quotes

• I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

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  Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say you cannot face them? Life's joys and pains both? You shall find them waiting for you, a world of ignored moments there to be explored. Then shall you know how long an hour can be, shall feel the awful depth and restlessness of even a single day, and all the days you fled from life while you were alive.

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  Pain   Long   Joy  

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• ...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

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  Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.

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  Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

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  Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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