“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.”
― The Diary of an Old Soul
― The Diary of an Old Soul
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Book of a Thousand Days
― Book of a Thousand Days
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