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    Tiffany Madison
    “We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
    ― Tiffany Madison
    tags: chaos, control, desperation, freedom, love, lover, lover-reborn, men-and-women, practical, practical-psychology, practicality, practicality-for-intellectuals, prevent, prevention, purity, resistance, sensibility, sensible, wit, work
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    S. Jae-Jones
    “For all that I could not bear my own silence, I wanted the voices of the world around me to disappear. Solitude was different from loneliness, and it was solitude I was seeking.”
    ― S. Jae-Jones, Shadowsong
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    Nikita Gill
    “The Sun and the Moon

    Aim for a love
    that reminds you
    of the devotion
    the sun has to the moon.
    Whether she is in fractions
    or she is whole,
    he still shrouds his intense light
    in the darkness of the night.
    To give her the entire sky,
    without judgment,
    so she can shine in any way she wants to.
    You deserve someone
    who adores you
    on the days you are
    in broken fragments too.
    You deserve someone
    who lets you glow
    in every way
    you need to.”
    ― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
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    Betty Smith
    “The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.”
    ― Betty Smith
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    Betty Smith
    “Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Brigid Kemmerer
    “My father once said we are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
    ― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely
    tags: beauty-and-the-beast, fractured-fairy-tale
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    Emily Dickinson
    “One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
    One need not be a house;
    The brain has corridors surpassing
    Material place.

    Far safer, of a midnight meeting
    External ghost,
    Than an interior confronting
    That whiter host.

    Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
    The stones achase,
    Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
    In lonesome place.

    Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
    Should startle most;
    Assassin, hid in our apartment,
    Be horror's least.

    The prudent carries a revolver,
    He bolts the door,
    O'erlooking a superior spectre
    More near.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: ghosts, haunted, loneliness, unconscious
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Kindness is many things,” he said. “It is gentle. Tender. Tolerant. It is born of patience and faith. And sometimes, yes, it’s dangerous. Helping a wounded animal that’s likely to lash out, standing up for someone who’s being taunted by bullies... these things are all dangerous. But to try to understand another creature, to put ourselves in their place, to help them - even when it costs us - that shows strength, Sophie, not weakness.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Poisoned
    tags: book-quotes, fairytale-retelling, kindness-matters, life-lessons-quotes, snow-white, true-strength, wisdom-quotes
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “There are many ways to take a heart.
    And the King of Crows uses all methods; he shies from none.
    He’s happy to have it cut out all at once as I, the huntsman, did.
    He’s happy to have it taken piece by piece, year by year, like a miser hoarding coins, with punishing silences, biting glances, and love served cold.
    Poisonous words do the job, too. They are as sharp as knives and leave their victims hollow.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Poisoned
    tags: book-quotes, emotional-abuse, fairytale-retellings, favorite-lines, things-to-think-on, words-hurt
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    William Kent Krueger
    “Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.”
    ― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land
    tags: book-quotes, broken-hearts, grief, life-is-short, life-quotes, loss, wisdom-quotes
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    William Kent Krueger
    “The sound of his deep sobs was enough to make a stone weep. It’s impossible to witness such open grief and not feel pity wrung from your heart... I couldn’t recall ever hearing a grown man cry this way. It made me think that no matter how big we grew or how old, there was always a child in us somewhere.”
    ― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land
    tags: book-quotes, broken-hearted-quotes, grief-quotes, grieving-quotes, loss, sadness-quotes
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    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Often those with less have more.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall
    tags: christmas, family, freedom, friends, holidays, kindness, laughter, love, spirituality, togetherness
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