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“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Only one who knows himself to be neither wise nor good can begin to be either.”
― The Dream of the Stone
― The Dream of the Stone
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