Elise

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Elise’s Quotes

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: life, love, poetry

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“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: beauty, earth

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“I sometimes watch the evening news on television and think all the world’s problems can be boiled down to one thing: the behavior of people with a Y chromosome.”
― Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

tags: y-chromosome

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“Men's rights

The right to be vulnerable
The right to be weak
The right to be wrong
The right to be intuitive
The right not to know
The right to be uncertain
The right to be flexible
The right not to be ashamed by any of these”
― Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

tags: emotion, emotional-intelligence, masculinity, men, men-s-rights, rights

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“I accepted another cup of tea. Watching her pour, I told her I could not imagine how hard it must have been. Winsome said well, nevermind and I decided one day I would ask her about it, but not then because there was more sadness in the way she said those two words than could be managed by either of us, sitting at her garden table, having afternoon tea. “Forgotten is forgiven.” For whatever reason, Winsome said it again. I repeated it after her. “Forgotten is forgiven.” “That’s right. Difficult but possible. Unless you want it, Martha, I might have this last biscuit.” *”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

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