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“I shall write it in my diary to-night.’
‘What?’
‘That a burnt child loves the fire.’
‘I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.’
‘You use them for everything, except flight.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“And in your absence,
I cried like I never did before
I cried with all senses
I cried as if I'm raining
As if I’m melting all at once.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“Tell me a secret, a nice one.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven