“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
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“It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires.
But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful… It will open up your life.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful… It will open up your life.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“All I think of ever is that I love you.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
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