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""We are carrying little pieces of the people who came generations, centuries before us. Doesn't that amaze you? Our genes and chromosomes, they tell a story of who we are, where we came from—it's not just one story living inside us, but thousands of stories just waiting to be understood, stories that link us to people who lived generations ago, who couldn't even imagine our existence.”" — 11 hours, 27 min ago
""We are carrying little pieces of the people who came generations, centuries before us. Doesn't that amaze you? Our genes and chromosomes, they tell a story of who we are, where we came from—it's not just one story living inside us, but thousands of stories just waiting to be understood, stories that link us to people who lived generations ago, who couldn't even imagine our existence.”" — 11 hours, 27 min ago
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"“I was seven years old the first time I went to jail.”
This memoir hurts already." — 22 hours, 8 min ago
"“I was seven years old the first time I went to jail.”
This memoir hurts already." — 22 hours, 8 min ago
I’m slightly embarrassed to say that I’ve turned the second bedroom into a walk-in closet.
I wish I’d thought of this when I had my own two bedroom apartment. Instead I filled that second room with a roommate and what a mistake that was!
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“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
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“There are many ways to take a heart.
And the King of Crows uses all methods; he shies from none.
He’s happy to have it cut out all at once as I, the huntsman, did.
He’s happy to have it taken piece by piece, year by year, like a miser hoarding coins, with punishing silences, biting glances, and love served cold.
Poisonous words do the job, too. They are as sharp as knives and leave their victims hollow.”
― Poisoned
And the King of Crows uses all methods; he shies from none.
He’s happy to have it cut out all at once as I, the huntsman, did.
He’s happy to have it taken piece by piece, year by year, like a miser hoarding coins, with punishing silences, biting glances, and love served cold.
Poisonous words do the job, too. They are as sharp as knives and leave their victims hollow.”
― Poisoned
“Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“The Sun and the Moon
Aim for a love
that reminds you
of the devotion
the sun has to the moon.
Whether she is in fractions
or she is whole,
he still shrouds his intense light
in the darkness of the night.
To give her the entire sky,
without judgment,
so she can shine in any way she wants to.
You deserve someone
who adores you
on the days you are
in broken fragments too.
You deserve someone
who lets you glow
in every way
you need to.”
― Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
Aim for a love
that reminds you
of the devotion
the sun has to the moon.
Whether she is in fractions
or she is whole,
he still shrouds his intense light
in the darkness of the night.
To give her the entire sky,
without judgment,
so she can shine in any way she wants to.
You deserve someone
who adores you
on the days you are
in broken fragments too.
You deserve someone
who lets you glow
in every way
you need to.”
― Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
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