Melissa
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“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
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“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
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