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“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“To the girls with softer dreams—your purpose is just as powerful”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“...pale spring became dazzling summer, with a tender, capricious sky and the fading flowers buried in a wash of summer grass.”
― Katherine Arden

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And I seem to have such strength in me now, that I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, " I exist". In thousands of agonies - I exist. I'm tormented on the rack - but I exist! Though I sit alone on a pillar - I exist!! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov