“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“When the waves close over me, I dive down to fish for pearls.”
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“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
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“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
― Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
― Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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