Life doesn’t wait to hand you a new puzzle until you’ve figured out the last one.”
“What is loneliness if not unimaginable light and measured in lumens— an electric bill which must be paid, a taxi cab floating across three lanes with its lamp lit, gold in wanting.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
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