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Human beings had such strange ideas about gratitude. When it should be given. When it should be withheld.
“A question is a cup you hold out to be filled, and there are those who will always fill it to the brim, pour in all the truth they can think of, until it overflows and spills out and spreads across the table. That's not me. Me, I'll give you what's precisely true and no more; I'll answer your question and shut up.”
― Golden State
― Golden State
“I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that.”
― The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
― The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
“That's love, as best as I can figure it: love isn't how you feel when you're together, it's how you feel, how often you feel it, when you're apart.”
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“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
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