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“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.”
― The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
― The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
― Dog Songs: Poems
― Dog Songs: Poems
“Like a view of the sea on a summer day on the most perfect winding road taken in from your car seat window A thing perfect and ready to become a part of the texture of the fabric of Something more ethereal like Mount Olympus where Zeus and Athena and the rest of the immortals play”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“With him, I am forever a night-blooming flower, attracted and repelled by the heat of the sun.”
― The Stolen Heir
― The Stolen Heir
“I saw an exquisite pink and blue shell on the sea-bottom. I dove for it, and held it, smooth and hollow in my hand all the morning. I decided it was a lucky charm, and that I would keep it. I am surprised that I have not lost it, for I lose everything. Today it is still pink and warm as it lies in my palm, and makes me feel like crying.”
― Bonjour tristesse
― Bonjour tristesse
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