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“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
It’s not that he doesn’t care. It’s that he can’t show us that he does.
He is an old cow eating young grass, and so he must pay the price for his pleasure.
When you truly love someone and you see them again, even if it is many years later, their new face blends back into their old face and it is like no time has passed at all.
“Yes and no. But I learned that if you do not speak, no one will ever hear you.”
“When you love someone, there is no shame. When I see you, I only know that you are my grandma and you are
beautiful. You did this for me when I was young. Now it is my turn. You always said, the old become children once again.”
grace of floating clouds and flowing water, and open the heart of this old woman with joy.”
The Dutch called this dog weather.
At a certain point, you wind up dividing yourself internally into so many different people you do not even know who you are anymore.”
But then the burden of years weighed upon us. Love can change. It can grow and twist until the most beautiful sapling in the wild turns into a prison of stunted wood.
In love and life, we never know when we are telling ourselves stories. We are the ultimate unreliable narrators.
Remember, high trees are attacked by strong winds.”
It was the greatest torture for a parent to outlive a child.
Lose the person you love most in the world and see how accepting and peaceful you are then.
The vacuum caused by her absence will haunt us forever.
while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth.
