“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”
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“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“There is always something left to love.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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