Once the backs of their hands brushed on the table, and Therese's skin there felt separately alive now, and rather burning. Therese could not understand it, but it was so.
“Is it better to speak or die?”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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