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True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.
Kiera Cass
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I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hated twin, but now, I don’t know you as myself. I release you with all the pain I would know at the death of my children.
You are not my blood anymore.
— Joy Harjo, from "I Give You Back," Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
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“You’ll break your own heart if you fall in love with ideas and not people.”
— Bridgett Devoue
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“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”
— Sarah Addison Allen
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“You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
— Neil Gaiman
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“It is lonely when you’re among people, too.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher (via resqectable)
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“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”
— Haruki Murakami
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“Some things go too deep to be forgotten.”
— John Galsworthy
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“One can say anything to language. This is why it is a listener, closer to us than any silence or any god.”
— John Berger, “The Hour of Poetry” (1982)
“It may sound foolish for a man in his mid-thirties to say this, but I feel as if my life is just beginning.”
— Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
“Sure, I have regrets,” I replied. “But even if I could go back and rectify one of my mistakes, I doubt it would change the outcome.”
— Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
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“This is how I will remember you; a constant in my sky. A bird tethered to the clouds. A body emitting light.”
— Lusia Solaris (via lusiasolaris)
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“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?… Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (via quotespile)
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“Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.”
— William Chapman
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“The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.”
— Mandy Hale