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I guess I've grown up a little, it's all relative anyway, nine years is as long as forty years depending on how long you've lived.
“I have late night conversations with the moon; he tells me about the sun, and I tell him about you.”
― Skin, Bones, and Too Much Love
― Skin, Bones, and Too Much Love
“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all of the reasons why I loved you”
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“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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