When your sorrow is comforted (Isabel Allende / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

There is no death, daughter.
People die only when we forget them,
my mother explained shortly before she left me.
If you can remember me,
I will be with you always.

 --Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

    All men have the stars… but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For other they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. 

    You — you alone — will have the stars as no one else has them… In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… 

    And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content to have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure… And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! 

--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince 

In November we remember All Souls...

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