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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “A leader is best
    When people barely know he exists
    Of a good leader, who talks little,
    When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
    They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #2
    “I need you to be a monster /
    which is to say, I am trying not to love you /
    which is to say, I am still dreaming of kissing your claws.”
    Fortesa Latifi

  • #3
    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #5
    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #6
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #7
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Do not fall in love with people like me.
    I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
    I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

  • #8
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “I mean, I hope you're happy,
    But the sky is still the sky without you,
    And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”
    Caitlyn Siehl
    tags: love

  • #9
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “When they don’t love you the way you want to, you mourn that for however long you need to. But then you get back up and you remind yourself. You are not a reflection of the people who can’t love you. You will love again. You will be loved again.”
    Caitlyn Siehl

  • #10
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Start by pulling him out of the fire and
    hoping that he will forget the smell.
    He was supposed to be an angel but they took him
    from that light and turned him into something hungry,
    something that forgets what his hands are for when they
    aren’t shaking.
    He will lose so much, and you will watch it all happen
    because you had him first, and you would let the world
    break its own neck if it means keeping him.
    Start by wiping the blood off of his chin and
    pretending to understand.
    Repeat to yourself
    “I won’t leave you, I won’t leave you”
    until you fall asleep and dream of the place
    where nothing is red.
    When is a monster not a monster?
    Oh, when you love it.
    Oh, when you used to sing it to sleep.
    Here are your upturned hands.
    Give them to him and watch how he prays
    like he is learning his first words.
    Start by pulling him out of another fire,
    and putting him back together with the pieces
    you find on the floor.
    There is so much to forgive, but you do not
    know how to forget.
    When is a monster not a monster?
    Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.
    Here is your humble offering,
    obliterated and broken in the mouth
    of this abandoned church.
    He has come back to stop the world
    from turning itself inside out, and you love him, you do,
    so you won’t let him.
    Tell him that you will never know any better.”
    Caitlyn Siehl

  • #11
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “This is the place I finally learned what it meant
    to dance alone to the song you put in my chest.

    Thanks for the symphony.

    I can still hear it when I think of you,
    and it is so much like remembering.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

  • #12
    Alan Alda
    “So that's it. I've told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use language to express those thoughts. Love somebody with all your heart. And with everyone, whether you love them or not, find out if you can be helpful. But really, it's even simpler than that. After all this time, and all these talks in public and in private, I think I get it now. If I were taking my friend Arnold's suggestion and spoke from my deathbed, I think I know what I'd say. I see now that I had my meaning all along, I just had to notice it. The meaning of life... is life. Not noticing life is what's meaningless, even down to the last second.”
    Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

  • #13
    Alan Alda
    “When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. ”
    Alan Alda

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    Kiersten White
    “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
    Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

  • #17
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars



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