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"This is actually the chapter title: *Oh My Gawd*: It's Full Of Stars" — Mar 04, 2014 04:57PM
"This is actually the chapter title: *Oh My Gawd*: It's Full Of Stars" — Mar 04, 2014 04:57PM
“What I find most troubling is the recent expectation for sudden weight loss after pregnancy. It’s perverse that the finest compliment given to a woman who has just made a person is that she looks like she hasn’t.”
― Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
― Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
“Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.”
― Lullabies
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.”
― Lullabies
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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“Then since we mortal lovers are,
Ask not how long our love may last;
But while it does, let us take care
Each minute be with pleasure passed:
Were it not madness to deny
To live because we're sure to die?”
― Works: Plays and Poems. Edited With Critical Notes and Introduction
Ask not how long our love may last;
But while it does, let us take care
Each minute be with pleasure passed:
Were it not madness to deny
To live because we're sure to die?”
― Works: Plays and Poems. Edited With Critical Notes and Introduction
“Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
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