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“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems

“I am me, in this ocean of people trying to fit in. I am a straw in the ocean, floating without aim. I am fallen leaf carried by the wind, flying, flying, flying, never finding solid ground. I am always winter, snowing in crystals, touching the ground, dissolving.”
― njhpiper, floating

“We get our tickets from the booth. As we walk inside the carnival, I feel Oliver's fingers wrapping around mine. I look down at our hands intertwined, and I glance up to find him looking forward as if he didn't just wrap his hands with mine.”
― njhpiper, floating

“Did you forget the chords, Gwen?" Oliver asks.”
― njhpiper, floating

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
― Carl Sagan

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead