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“You are a beautiful girl, a human being capable of feeling, loving, and creating. One day, you will be a beautiful woman. Then, you'll pass into another life. You may not understand in full the magnificent splendor of that cycle, but if you ever do even for a moment, and if you can love yourself as you are, then you'll have learned everything there is to learn in this world, in your world, and all worlds.”
― Where Spirits Live
― Where Spirits Live
“Life is incredibly, undeniably serious. And it's incredibly, undeniably silly, too. It all depends on which way you'd like to have it.”
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“And I marvel at how such thorough happiness and deep sadness can live side by side in the same person, only hours apart.”
― Where Spirits Live
― Where Spirits Live
“This world is too hard for me. Sometimes, I feel myself melting into the soft world without even noticing it. I don't belong here.”
― Where Spirits Live
― Where Spirits Live
“Looking around at the children I feel as though I understand them more than they understand themselves. I see the characters under their skins and the motives behind their actions. It's so easy now to look at others and know them, to see the truth behind each tiny moment. Then why is it so difficult to know myself in the same way?”
― Where Spirits Live
― Where Spirits Live
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