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“your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry


your father is absent


you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“And what do you know of love?"
"That it must be a choice."
"Oh, my naive thief. " I pause briefly to meet his gaze. "Love is rarely a choice.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“She could smile until the bitter end, no matter what it cost her--because she was a Washington and had been trained to smile through anything.
Even through her own heartbreak.”
― Katharine McGee, American Royals

“He embraced me, and said into my ear, 'I'm going to fuck the shit out of you.'
I lost my breath.
It was crude, it was unexpected, and it set me on fucking fire.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“He didn’t know what it was like, wanting something you could never have; how impossible it was to un-want it once you’d let the feeling in.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“I know what that’s like,” he says. “The way you can be saved without ever knowing you were in trouble.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“we're all wanting things we don't understand. things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control all of it.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.
It was something. Don't say it wasn't.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“„I choose to excel, not compete - do you?
I choose to make changes, not excuses - do you?
To be motivated, not manipulated.
To be useful, not used.
I choose to live by choice, not by chance - do you?”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.”
― Peter Deunov

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“Like and equal are not the same thing at all.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“People are more than just the way they look.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“It happens like this.

"One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will become clear in due time."

Though here is a word of warning--you may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn't to save you but to show you how to save yourself. And once this is fulfilled; the halo lifts and the angel leaves their body as the person exits your life. They will be a stranger to you once more.

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It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me.
That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“But it was now time for her to go away—to find someone who could show her what happiness was.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“How is it you can feel you love someone when you hardly know them and how do you stop loving them once you do?”
― Kate McGahan

“How come we never know what what we want until we find it?”
― Kate McGahan