If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that__ true. After a year, after five. But you don__ come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.
Flaubert's Parrot
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(on grief) And you do come out of it, that__ true. After a year, after five. But you don__ come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.
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