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“I don’t see it that way. It’s more like she’s encouraging us to undermine a system flawed through overuse of words that are made out to be harmful, when in fact they’re just letters, mixed together like every other word. That’s all they are, mixed-up letters. Like, take the word ‘butterfly,’ for example. What if someone decided one day that ‘butterfly’ is a cuss word? People would eventually start using the word ‘butterfly’ as an insult and to emphasize things in a negative way. The actual word doesn’t mean anything. It’s the negative association people give these words that make them cuss
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“Suck-and-sweet time?” Kiersten asks, confused. Kel fills her in. “It’s where you have to say your suck and your sweet of the day. The good and the bad. The high and the low. We do it every night at supper.”
Will and Lake, Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.
“And all around my memories, you dance…” —The Avett Brothers
If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it… all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you…
Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
My grandmother rolls her eyes at my perceived ignorance. “A man can tell a woman he’s in love with her until he’s blue in the face. Words don’t mean anything to her when her head is full of doubt. You have to show her.”
Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid. —JOHN WAYNE
The heart of a man is no heart at all If his heart isn’t loved by a woman. The heart of a woman is no heart at all If her heart isn’t loving a man. But the heart of a man and a woman in love Can be worse than not having a heart Because at least if you have no heart at all It can’t die when it breaks apart.
“Sherry, until I met you, I didn’t know what life was. I had no clue that I wasn’t even alive. It’s like you came along and woke up my soul.”
“I’ll never be able to give you everything you deserve, but I’ll definitely spend the rest of my life trying.”
Sometimes things happen in life that you didn’t plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.”
I want to have friends that I can trust, who love me for the man I’ve become… not the man that I was. —THE AVETT BROTHERS
‘Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.’ ”
The worst thing about hospitals is the furniture. The beds are too small for two people. The chairs are too hard for any people. And there’s never a recliner. If they would just have a recliner, I might not detest them so much.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. —MAHATMA GANDHI
I’ve learned something about my heart. It can break. It can be ripped apart. It can harden and freeze. It can stop. Completely. It can shatter into a million pieces. It can explode. It can die. The only thing that made it start beating again? The moment you opened your eyes.
The points are not the point; the point is poetry.
