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Today I prayed for Boston, for America, my home away from home. Today, I realized how lucky we Sri Lankans are to have peace in our country. How I feel today, hearing of the bombs going off in the city brings back memories of how I used to feel four years ago in Sri Lanka when the LTTE was setting off bombs all around Colombo. That feeling I used to get when I hear about a bomb blast, the goosebumps, the school evacuation drills, the breaking news footage, and most of all, that fear we Sri Lankans used to feel, every second of everyday, it all came back to me today. Thank you God for bringing peace to my country, look after America the way you did Sri Lanka.Thisuri Wanniarachchi
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I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.Catherynne M. Valente
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Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholderHelene Munson
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Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.John Updike
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When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people–relatives, friends, police officers, reporters from both TV and print–create a lot of energy and noise, a sense of communal intensity, of fierce and shared dedication to a task. “But amid all that noise, nothing is louder than the silence of the missing child. It’s a silence that’s two and a half to three feet tall, and you feel it at your hip and hear it rising up from the floorboards, shouting to you from corners and crevices and the emotionless face of a doll left on the floor by the bed. “It’s a silence that’s different from the one left at funerals and wakes. The silence of the dead carries with it a sense of finality; it’s a silence you know you must get used to. But the silence of a missing child is not something you want to get used to; you refuse to accept it, and so it screams at you.“ The silence of the dead says, Goodbye. “The silence of the missing says, Find me.Dennis Lehane
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Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.Thomas M. Cirignano
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Readers are saying;“ A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport'. ..”" Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer."“ A great piece of workKeith Guernsey
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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?Mark Twain
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And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.J. C. Bossidy
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Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.Franklin P. Adams