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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
tags: poem

Astrid Lindgren
“He's the strongest man in the world.'

'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.”
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

Neal Shusterman
“They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.”
Neal Shusterman, Full Tilt

Pablo Neruda
“sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

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