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“Be gentle with yourself and make the descansos, the resting places for the part of yourself that were on their way to somewhere but they never got to. They mark the dealth site. They are markers of your dark times. But they are also love notes to your suffering– they are transformative. There is a lot to be said for pinning things to the earth so they don't follow us around. What is really means is laying your rage to rest so that you can create the wild woman.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Why does everyone else just assume we all see the world the same way?!”
― とんがり帽子のアトリエ 3 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 3]
― とんがり帽子のアトリエ 3 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 3]
“Thank you for seeing me when other people looked through me like I was a ghost”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Rather than saying you have no idea what to do…you’re asking what you can do to make it work. That’s a big step forward. Good job.”
― Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 6
― Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 6
“Two things that are each complete, yet cannot exist without each other. Things which can never be separated, yet can never be together. Like life, existence, light. And shadow, nothingness, death. For each to exist, for us to remain ourselves, there is something akin to a boundary-- a wall, a barrier. That allows those two halves of a whole to forever stay apart. Avoidance is bliss. To meet is to cause each other unhappiness. To cause strife and suffering. Just like it did for us. That may simply be the fate of this world. But if you meet and can accept that suffering, the two may finally become one. In the end that may be the curse.”
― とつくにの少女 11
― とつくにの少女 11
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