“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
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“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”
― Dear John
― Dear John
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
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“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
― Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Life After God
― Life After God
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