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“There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow. Just as words cannot describe what I feel right now, something between envy and shame, and between compassion and disappointment. “We”
― The Mermaid's Sister
― The Mermaid's Sister
“They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“I feel as if part of me is now made of sorrow, some new and tender organ that will pain me until the day I die. I know Maren is safe and well, and made beautiful in all ways. My grief is not for her but for myself—because I miss her . . . because she is missing from me.”
― The Mermaid's Sister
― The Mermaid's Sister
“Do you remember
the summer of the rain...
You must let everything fall that wants to fall.”
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the summer of the rain...
You must let everything fall that wants to fall.”
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“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
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