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#1

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#2

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#3

“She slammed her heel down into his stomach and groin, three sharp jabs. Finally, he stumbled forward, falling to his knees.
“I am not one of you,” Lada said, her mouth right next to his ear. “I am better.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: and-i-darken, lada-dracul

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#4

“On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: lada, marriage

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#5

“The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: dream, dreaming, flames, high, look-down, look-up, plot, plotting, sights, staring, stars

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#6

“Well, are you ready, Lada Dragwlya, daughter of the dragon?" Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country. This was hers. Not because of her father. Not because of Mehmed. Because the land itself had claimed her as its own. "Not Dragwlya," she said. "Lada Dracul. I am no longer the daughter of the dragon." She lifted her chin, sights set on the horizon. "I am the dragon.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: dragon, lada, lada-dracul

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#7

“You look ridiculous. Armor suits you far more than silk."
"Take me with you, and I will wear armor the whole time.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

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#8

“Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

tags: heartbreak, love, unrequired-love

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#9

“A dragon did not crawl on its belly in front of its enemies, begging for their help. A dragon did not vow to rid the world of infidels, and then invite them into its home. A dragon did not flee its land in the middle of the night like a criminal.

A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

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#10

“Turn back and seek the safety of the shore; tempt not the deep, lest, losing unawares me and yourselves, you come to port no more.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: prodigal-son, rationalizations, temptation, wayward

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#11

“There are many elder sons and elder daughters who are lost while still at home. And it is this lostness—characterized by judgment and condemnation, anger and resentment, bitterness and jealousy—that is so pernicious and so damaging to the human heart. Often we think about lostness in terms of actions that are quite visible. The lostness of the elder son is much harder to identify. A dark power erupts in him and boils to the surface. Suddenly, there becomes glaringly visible a resentful, proud, unkind, selfish person.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

tags: brotherhood, family, lostness, parables, pride, prodigal-son, resentment, selfishness, spirituality, theology

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#12

“I see how lost the elder son is. He has become a foreigner in his own house. I know the pain of this predicament. In it, everything loses its spontaneity. Everything becomes suspect, self-conscious, calculated, and full of second-guessing. There is no longer any trust. Each little move calls for a countermove; each little remark begs for analysis; the smallest gesture has to be evaluated. This is the pathology of the darkness. I cannot forgive myself. I cannot make myself feel loved. By myself I cannot leave the land of my anger. I cannot bring myself home.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

tags: anger, forgiveness, love, parables, prodigal-son, relationships, resentment, spirituality, theology, trust

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#13

“The back door beckons to a prodigal son.”
― Michael Davidow, Split Thirty

tags: prodigal-son

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#14

“The Force is not so simple, and neither are the emotions of living creatures. Most Jedi have felt the temptation of the dark side. It is only natural. But we resist it. It is a deliberate path to the dark, not a series of bad days. Being a Jedi is about choosing the light over and over again.”
― Justina Ireland, A Test of Courage

tags: goodness, goodness-and-evil, inspirational, self-improvement, the-force

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#15

“Being a Jedi is about choosing the light over and over again.”
― Justina Ireland, A Test of Courage

tags: jedi

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#16

“If you judge someone by your expectations instead of their actions, you will always be disappointed.”
― Justina Ireland, A Test of Courage

tags: inspirational, judgement, self-improvement

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#17

“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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#18

“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: genya

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#19

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

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#20

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#21

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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#22

“Kung ibibigay mo sa akin ang puso mo, paano ka?"

"Hahatiin ko ito para sa ating dalawa. Ang kalahati ay para magmahal ka. Ang matitira ay para mahalin kita.”
― Bob Ong, Si

tags: filipino, love

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#23

“Me quota ang pag-ibig. Sa bawat limang umiibig, isa lang ang magiging maligaya. Ang iba, iibig sa di sila iniibig. Iibig nang di natututo. O iibig sa wala. O di iibig kailanman.”
― Ricky Lee, Para Kay B

tags: filipino, love

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#24

“The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.”
― Nick Joaquín, Culture and History

tags: filipino, identity

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#25

“I killed a plant once because I gave
it too much water. Lord, I worry
that love is violence.”
― José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

tags: citizen-illegal, josé-olivarez

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#26

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#27

“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’?

-’A happy one, of course.’

-’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’.

-’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’.

-’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, deity, gods, greek-mythology, miserable-life, myth, mythology, suffering

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#28

“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.
I stepped into those woods and my life began.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: aiaia, circe, exile, freedom, helios

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#29

“…the feeling that flickered in me now was much older. There he was, his flesh laid open before me. This is something torn that I can mend.”
― Madeline Miller

tags: circe

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#30

“When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.”
― Anaïs Nin

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