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it is the search for the Filipino part of themselves; that part that is deemed to have been submerged but longing to be acknowledged and loved.
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“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”
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“To be soft, for me, is so often pretense, and pretense does not come easily while writing to you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Howl’s Moving Castle
― Howl’s Moving Castle
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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