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“I feel so frightened of being hurt – not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“Orquídea didn’t like it because she knew she wasn’t a flower, delicate and pretty and waiting to be plucked. For what? To be smelled? To sit in a glass of water until she withered? She was more than that. She wanted to be rooted so deep into the earth that nothing, no human, no force of nature, save an act of the heavens themselves, could rip her out.”
― The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
― The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
“Depending who viewed it, Persephone had either been stolen or she had run from Demeter. Either way, she made herself queen.”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
“A man who loves another man does not matter because he is not a man—and his paintings and his poems and whatever he thinks or says or feels do not matter. That is what people believe. But those are lies, and I do not believe any of those lies. So I became an artist and a poet so I could paint and write the things that mattered—even if they only mattered to me. And that is the only thing that matters.”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
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