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“Too many times
I've scratched myself on the thorn of a rose
Falling into a rose bush over and over again
Never understanding the need of a dozen
I fell in love with one and in the way it stood alone.”
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I've scratched myself on the thorn of a rose
Falling into a rose bush over and over again
Never understanding the need of a dozen
I fell in love with one and in the way it stood alone.”
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“It might do me well to trip and fall,
to stumble blindly and to crawl,
for some reason ...
or none at all.”
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to stumble blindly and to crawl,
for some reason ...
or none at all.”
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“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.
Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
“Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.”
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But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.”
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“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
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