LesleyjR
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By the end of our third year of marriage, I understood that the secret to everlasting love was fear. Fear tethered love in place. Without the terror that came from imagining a life without your beloved, there was no urgency in loving them.
“it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Then everything becomes black against white: snow falls on the ploughed fields. ‘Drive your plow over the bones of the dead,’ I said to myself in the words of Blake; is that how it went?”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Home. I want to take a minute to savor something I have not felt since my mom passed. What it feels like to be home. 17 ALICE I”
― Broken Sparrow
― Broken Sparrow
“We learned, after the old world died, not to put our faith in wood pulp or motherboards; the only archive that survives is the one we carry with us.”
― The Knight and the Butcherbird
― The Knight and the Butcherbird
“presumption is, after all, the mother from where all mistakes are born,”
― Afterlife
― Afterlife
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