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    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
    ― Gwendolyn Brooks
    tags: humanity, understanding, unity
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    Ijeoma Umebinyuo
    “You did not carry yourself
    away from pain
    to become pain itself.”
    ― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
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    Ijeoma Umebinyuo
    “So, here you are
    too foreign for home
    too foreign for here.
    Never enough for both.”
    ― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
    tags: abroad, foreigner, traveling
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: essentialism
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I didn't know that would be the last time I'd see him, his neck scar lit blue by the diner's neon marquee. To see that little comma again, to put my mouth there, let my shadow widen the scar until, at last, there was no scar to be seen at all, just a vast and equal dark sealed by my lips. A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: death, love, mourning, sadness, writing
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: man, men, woman, women
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: inspirational, life, metaphor
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “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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    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: change, god
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    Hafiz
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: faith, inspiration
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    Ashley Woodfolk
    “A lie:

    'Opposites attract.'

    The truth?
    Magnets attract.
    Opposites fit together like (fucked up) puzzle pieces.

    And when you're fucked up, there are more important things than attraction.

    Like distraction. Like destruction.

    Opposites distract.
    Opposites destroy.
    Opposites decimate.
    Opposites detonate.

    Opposites are fun as hell,

    until they aren't.”
    ― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
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    Ashley Woodfolk
    “women were like the sea: Always shifting. Stormy and calm and crashing and quiet. Able to hold and house and carry things with ease. Always gorgeous but in infinite ways. We moved with the moon.”
    ― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
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    Ashley Woodfolk
    “Lies:

    'Love is blind.'
    'Time heals all wounds.'

    The truth?
    Love can see just fine. But it's nearsighted.
    Shortsighted.
    And distance is the only thing that heals.”
    ― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
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    Ashley Woodfolk
    “A lie:

    'All you need is love.'

    The truth:
    you need a hell of a lot more
    than that.”
    -Ashley Woodfolk”
    ― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
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    Ashley Woodfolk
    “And it hits like a lightning bolt, the mistake you made:
    you mistook my softness
    for weakness.”
    ― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
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    bell hooks
    “When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
    ”
    ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
    tags: relationships
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    bell hooks
    “But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
    ― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
    tags: aloneness, community, escape, fear, loneliness, love, relationship, solitude
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Collected Poems
    tags: love-poems
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    Sade Andria Zabala
    “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
    ― Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes
    tags: love-quotes, quote
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    Warsan Shire
    “all the girls you’ve ever loved, i think i loved them too.
    interlude for the grand sonata
    every mouth you’ve ever kissed
    was just practice
    all the bodies you’ve ever undressed
    and ploughed into
    were preparing you for me.
    i don’t mind tasting them in the
    memory of your mouth
    they were a long hallway
    a door half-open
    a single suitcase still on the conveyor belt
    was it a long journey?
    did it take you long to find me?
    you’re here now,
    welcome home.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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