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“the one who wants to love you, but often
isn't good at even that, the one who
doesn't want to be diminished
by how much she wants to be yours.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“How good it is to love
live things, even when what they've done
is terrible, how much we each want to be
the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose
into out own wide open without a single
harness of sin to stop us.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“We can have everything."
"No, we can't."
"We can have the whole world."
"No, we can't."
"We can go everywhere."
"No, we can't. It isn't ours any more."
"Its ours."
"No, it isn't.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

“I used to think this was funny, Eric says.
What's funny?
Us talking around in circles.
It was never supposed to be funny.
You're right.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry