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Our bones have a wisdom that our hearts will always follow, regardless of the roads down which our rational minds think we should head.
The United States of Advertising has made everybody insecure about their looks.”
“Whatever bad thing happened to you, it hasn’t made you less beautiful. There’s beauty in darkness, too. It just takes a different kind of vision to see it.”
Life’s too short to mince words. Our existence is measured in minutes. Seconds. Heartbeats. Time is the most valuable commodity we have, because it can never be replenished. Once it’s gone…it’s gone forever. And so are we.”
“Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.”
“Duris dura fraguntur.” It’s Latin, I know that much. I also know by the change in his voice that I’ve stepped into dangerous territory, but I can’t help but step farther. My curiosity is too strong. “What does it mean?” He answers in a low voice. “Hard things are broken by hard things.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“L-love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
Write down what you feel. Everything you feel—about Paris, about life, about me—from now until September. Then leave it when you go, so I’m not alone with my memories. Leave me your memories, too, so I’ll know it all really happened once you’re gone. So I’ll know you weren’t just a beautiful dream.
It’s the clinging to emotion that causes suffering, she said. A wiser choice is to let it go and breathe.
