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“Can you imagine God creating this vast universe, full of oceans and mountains and stars and galaxies – and then being so petty that He punishes you for loving who you love?”
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.”
― Folk med ångest
― Folk med ångest
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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