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“Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?”
― Ajax
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?”
― Ajax
“Meditation without love is like drinking tea from an empty cup.”
― Just Love Her
― Just Love Her
“Still I chase the wind
and float as a gentle breeze
up among the stars
then descending
as a bird down amidst the trees.”
― Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
and float as a gentle breeze
up among the stars
then descending
as a bird down amidst the trees.”
― Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
“She cursed her gender. Nobody would have dared attack her if she had been a man.”
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
“It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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