We do well to remember dolphins. If a dolphin ails, then others come alongside and nudge him gently through the waters; because a dolphin must keep moving in order to keep breathing. We all have need of our dolphins alongside us from time to time.

Frank Delaney


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Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone's life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance.

Frank Delaney


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James left us, taking his great, informed soul with him.

Frank Delaney


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Draped across an armchair lay his famous long black coat, empty now, and hollow with missing him.

Frank Delaney


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...habit of speaking in paragraphs.

Frank Delaney


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We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.

Frank Delaney

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definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.

Frank Delaney


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Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator

Frank Delaney


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Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

Frank Delaney


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I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Frank Delaney


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