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1. "What I did at the memorial, was listen. To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed." ~ Nathan Filer
2. "..think back through your own life, to when you were eight or nine years old. See if the memories you have are the ones you might expect. or if they are fragments, dislocated moments, a smell here, a feeling there. The unlikeliest conversations and places. We don't choose what we keep - not at that age. Not ever, really." ~ Nathan Filer
3. "Reading is a bit like hallucinating." ~ Nathan Filer
4. "I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who had written it. I decided everyone in the world had a book with their name on, and if I searched hard enough I'd eventually find mine." ~ Nathan Filer
5. "She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind." ~ Nathan Filer
6. "Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there." ~ Nathan Filer
7. "There is weather and there is climate.If it rains outside, or if you stab a classmate's shoulder with a compass needle, over and over, until his white cotton school shirt looks like blotting paper; that is weather.But if you live in a place where is is often likely to rain, or your perception falters and dislocates so that you retreat, suspicious and afraid of those closest to you, that is climate." ~ Nathan Filer
8. "That's a fear when someone you love dies, isn't it? Especially if you're only young when it happens, you might worry that over time you'll stop being able to picture them properly. Or that the sound of their voice will merge into other voices, so that you can no longer be sure how it was they sounded." ~ Nathan Filer
9. "I should write about why he left.But there are different versions of truth. If we meet each other in the street, glance away and look back, we might look the same, feel the same, think the same, but the subatomic particles, the smallest parts of us that make every other part, will have rushed away, been replaced at impossible speeds. We will be completely different people. Everything changes all the time.Truth changes.Here are three truths." ~ Nathan Filer
10. "Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that might make you want to forget - keep it safe somewhere." ~ Nathan Filer
11. "A good thing about talking to someone who is standing behind you is that you can pretend you don't know they're crying, and not trouble yourself too much with working out why. You can simply concentrate on helping them feel better." ~ Nathan Filer
12. "That was sort of our family portrait. It's not the kind of thing you think you would miss. Maybe you don't even notice it at all those thousands of times, sitting between your mum and dad on the big green couch with your brother on the carpet getting in the way of the telly. Maybe you don't even notice that.But you notice it when he isn't there anymore. You notice so many places where he isn't, and you hear so many of the things he doesn't say.I do.I hear them all the time." ~ Nathan Filer
13. "This is how we piece together our past. We do it like a jigsaw puzzle, where there are missing pieces. But so long as we have enough of the pieces, we can know what belongs in the gaps." ~ Nathan Filer
14. "I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too." ~ Nathan Filer
15. "But one thing I've learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you." ~ Nathan Filer
16. "Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist." ~ Nathan Filer
17. "HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfil. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, how hard you hope." ~ Nathan Filer

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