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“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
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“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
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“i'd go out and party
then come home to the moon
an empty home
and cold bed
this was no way to live
i needed more”
― A Beautiful Composition of Broken
then come home to the moon
an empty home
and cold bed
this was no way to live
i needed more”
― A Beautiful Composition of Broken
“know your worth
and never communicate
reply or respond to anyone
who can't afford to speak to you
or with you”
― A Beautiful Composition of Broken
and never communicate
reply or respond to anyone
who can't afford to speak to you
or with you”
― A Beautiful Composition of Broken
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