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"“They were cheap masks locked on fifth street thoughts — voice is gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.”" — Jul 17, 2025 08:27AM
"“They were cheap masks locked on fifth street thoughts — voice is gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.”" — Jul 17, 2025 08:27AM
It never occurred to me that I had brought him here not just to show him my little world, but to ask my little world to let him in, so that the place where I came to be alone on summer afternoons would get to know him, judge him, see if he
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“How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.”
― Love Medicine
― Love Medicine
“The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born—waiting to see the light.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“It was so much more painful to look at her than anyone had warned him it would be, and he wanted to do something terrible, like set himself on fire or drive his car into a tree.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I've been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day
But if I wake
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.”
―
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day
But if I wake
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.”
―
“I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.”
― Love Medicine
― Love Medicine
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