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My Friends
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You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.”
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hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.”
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“Beautiful people liked to claim looks didn’t matter, while throwing that currency around like novice bank robbers.”
― Unsheltered
― Unsheltered
“...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.”
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“you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.”
― New Moon
― New Moon
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