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“People don’t want to know,” he whispered, not looking up. “Know what?” “What makes them uncomfortable,” Larkin specified. “Sometimes they don’t know what to say, don’t want to make a bad situation worse. Other times, they only pretend to not know because the empathy required is too big a burden. They pull back. They become distant. They ask how you are the same way they ask if it looks like rain or if you watched that Mets game on TV. People don’t really want to know.”

Remembrance is the greatest act of love there is. Because... because no one is truly dead and gone, so long as someone remembers them

We take photos because we don’t want to forget. Even before the advent of such technology, we’ve always looked for ways to capture our likeness. Not out of egotism—not really. But because we fear being forgotten. We fear forgetting those we loved.

“You don’t like bugs.” “Nothing that wiggles, squirms, or has an unnecessary number of legs.” “Maggots won’t hurt you.”