"It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others."

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And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.

— John Boyne