Dhiya Meriska
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“What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it’s the story that’s easiest to believe.
“To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“It was the dandelion principle! To some people a dandelion might look like a weed, but to others that same plant can be so much more. To an herbalist, it’s a medicine—a way of detoxifying the liver, clearing the skin, and strengthening the eyes. To a painter, it’s a pigment; to a hippie, a crown; a child, a wish. To a butterfly, it’s sustenance; to a bee, a mating bed; to an ant, one point in a vast olfactory atlas.”
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“You like so much to be alone?” “Yes; as long as my friends keep me from feeling lonely.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“To me the only death is monotony.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“When I give up the fish, I get, at long last, that thing I had been searching for: a mantra, a trick, a prescription for hope. I get the promise that there are good things in store. Not because I deserve them. Not because I worked for them. But because they are as much a part of Chaos as destruction and loss. Life, the flip side of death. Growth, of rot.”
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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