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oliver’s Quotes

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: grief, healing, magnus-bane, time, will-herondale

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“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

tags: burdens, memory, poems, poetry, remembering

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“when I imagine myself

I am always leaving

I couldn’t draw my own face if god asked”
― Andrés Cerpa

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“How many poems must you write to convince yourself you have a family? Everyone leaves and you end up the stranger.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

tags: family, longing, poetry, sadness

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“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

tags: an-oresteia, orestes

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