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Miles thought of the word she’d had on the small of her back: hiraeth. She’d said it was a Welsh word that meant homesickness for a home you can never return to or that never was.
“Paths are made by walking”
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“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
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“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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