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“You’ll find someone, Layla.” “Everyone keeps saying that, but I’m not so sure,” I confess. “I’d like something to be mine. Someone, maybe.” Mine and mine alone. Secret smiles and easy touches and lips pressed against the back of my neck.
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“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
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“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
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It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― 100 Selected Poems
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
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“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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