Monstrilio
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didn’t know what the tree was called when I first saw it. Even when my husband called it dogwood, the name meant nothing to me. I understood the wood part, after all it was a tree, but the dog part was odd, as nothing in the tree resembled
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“Grief doesn’t feel as if a rug has been pulled out from under her. There is no rug. There is no floor on which to lay a rug. There is no ground on which to build a floor to lay a rug.”
― The Body in Question
― The Body in Question
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
“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.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
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