Jamie Egelston
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“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”
― Incubus Dreams
― Incubus Dreams
“Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”
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About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”
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“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
― Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
― Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
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