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“Those whom love has not given wings cannot fly the cloud of appearances to see the magic world in which Selma`s spirit and mine existed together in that sorrowfully happy hour. Those whom Love has not chosen as followers do not hear when Love calls. This story is not for them. Even if they should comprehend these pages, they would not be able to grasp the shadowy meanings which are not clothed in words and do not reside on paper, but what human being is he who has never sipped the wine from the cup of love, and what spirit is it that has never stood reverently before that lighted altar in the temple whose pavement is the hearts of men and women and whose ceiling is the secret canopy of dreams? What flower is that on whose leaves the dawn has never poured a drop of dew; what streamlet is that which lost its course without going to the sea?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“I now realize that if you spend enough time with sharp elbows, you will end up bleeding to death.”
― Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

“Learning these words, my heart melted, and I answered her, "I will be as you want me to be, my beloved.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“Silence prevailed, and I could see the pallor of death on the old man`s face. Then he rolled his eyes and looked at us and whispered, "Don`t call the physician, for he might extend my sentence in this prison by his medicine. The days of slavery are gone, and my soul seeks the freedom of the skies...”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings