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#1

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
― Alexander the Great

#2

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

tags: carol, forbidden-love, impossible-love, in-love, lesbian, love, patricia-highsmith, starcrossed-lovers, the-price-of-salt, unrequited-love

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#3

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

3498 likes

#4

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”
― Patricia Highsmith

307 likes

#5

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

1422 likes

#6

“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: lost, nina-lacour, sad, suicide

759 likes

#7

“And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

tags: carol, lesbian, love, patricia-highsmith, perfect, right, romantic, sex, the-price-of-salt

88 likes

#8

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

71 likes

#9

“How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

45 likes

#10

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

tags: gay, relatable

540 likes

#11

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

402 likes

#12

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

324 likes

#13

“I remembered what had been circling in me: I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

65 likes

#14

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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