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“I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.”
― Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

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“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

tags: arriving, cities, city, destination, empty, home, leave, leaving, left, lose, love, new, streets, touring, travel, traveller, travelling, vagabond, wanderer, wanderlust

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“When she looked at him again she had raised windows for eyes, with curtains blowing out of them, framing a yellow-lit room. Below them, her face declined in wet shingles, flowing with little rivulets of rainwater.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.”
― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile

tags: cleopatra, cleopatra-s-daughter, cleopatra-selene, confidence, high-school, insecure, life, peer-pressure, selene, stephanie-dray

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“Silence blew from the hole she had dug like smoke. She could feel what lay just beyond. The new countryside. The unspeaking multitude. Steeples and arches of bone; temples of silence. She felt the great shapes that moved there, majestic and unfurled, utterly silent, utterly dark.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection

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