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“Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”
― Robert Conquest

“A Modern Prayer

Dear God, help me to slow down notrushpasteverythingthatisimportanttodayamen.

Robert Holden”
― Robert Holden

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“YOU FEAR TO DIE?
"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”
― Ann Brashares

“You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory