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“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”
― John Updike

“We are most alive when we're in love.”
― John Updike

“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”
― John Updike

“John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness.”
― Ariel Levy, The Rules Do Not Apply

“Life. Too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.”
― John Updike

“I love you,” he says, and the fact that he doesn’t makes it true.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Redux

“We love too late... Oh why, why may we never join hand to hand, or give back speech truly?”
― John Updike, The Centaur

“You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together.”
― John Updike, Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"

“She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
― Atticus

“Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tomorrows.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

“The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
― Mary Oliver

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it. ”
― Dean Koontz

“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”
― Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”
― Dean Koontz, Strange Highways

“Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul”
― Dean Koontz

“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year