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Elise’s Quotes

“They say nothing lasts forever and I’m writing you in the voice of an endangered species.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“The most beautiful videos
come from reading poetry.
And they're in your head.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

tags: imagery, in-the-next-galaxy, poetry, reading, ruth-stone, visualization

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“Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.”
― Hannah Gadsby

tags: art, art-saves, artists-life, artists-quotes, brother, connection, depression, pain, painting, van-gogh

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“Do all things come to an end?
No, they go on forever.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

tags: come-to-an-end, continuing, end, forever, in-the-next-galaxy, on-and-on, poetry, ruth-stone

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