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“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65,
you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.
However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find––
is they are not always with whom we spend our lives”
― Hunting Season
you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.
However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find––
is they are not always with whom we spend our lives”
― Hunting Season
“She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts, bit because she continued on despite them.”
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“Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.”
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