I realized then what I had known since I was a child watching my mother die of cancer—namely, that beyond… — Dan Simmons
I realized then what I had known since I was a child watching my mother die of cancer—namely, that beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.”
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