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“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“She flicks her words like lit matches. They drop delicately, burning.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“You were born to be remembered, not missed.
Being missed means you eat up people’s memory
leaving them full of you but emtpy of themselves.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Sometimes goodness comes from treating yourself. Not like you burned earth to dust but like you made it into a beautiful body crowned it with stars, put a precious coat over it and called it home.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I am not the sum of lovers I had or never had. As for lovers who left, consider them hair. Sometimes you cut it off for it to grow longer and more beautiful (but that doesn’t mean you hate pictures of yourself with it). Even after lovers you remain Beautiful.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Foul smell of the things that we do to escape
There is no glamour in this. No rock and roll.
This is just endings. This is just grief.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration