“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Hell is—other people!”
― No Exit
― No Exit
“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
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