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“Sometimes, he thought to himself in a house in a cerulean sea, you were able to choose the life you wanted. And if you were of the lucky sort, sometimes that life chose you back.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.

we can’t cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us

it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours”
― Charles Bukowski

“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
―حافظ”
― Hafiz