“Parched by the deprivation of your love for so long made me forget what a cup brimming with love, on my lips, felt like. Everything that now wets it, only wrinkles it with a bland taste.”
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“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”
― The Illusion of Separateness
― The Illusion of Separateness
“I have sea foam in my veins,
for I understand
the language of waves.”
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for I understand
the language of waves.”
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“Up here on this forgotten elbow of land, I have nothing to lose, and though I am more afraid now than I have ever been, I am relieved, I am unburdened, I am ascending.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories
― The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”
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