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Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)

by bell hooks

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Jun 22, 2022 07:04PM

“But what is life but fifteen to one hundred years of becoming cocooned in societal bullshit, followed by zero to eighty-five years of sloughing off that bullshit through reading, therapy, and sitting on the edge of a lake thinking about your life and choices?”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

tags: choices, life, love

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“I now know that true chillness can also come from being so demoralized by American politics that you cannot care about men.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,” he writes, “there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

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“Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: being-alive, being-in-the-moment, life, life-affirming, lives, parallel-lives

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