Carla

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Carla’s Quotes

“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: atmosphere, autumn, autumnal, description, e-m-forster, fall, howards-end, november, quiet

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“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base love or heroic love or transgressive love or love that is a blind and lame and ridiculous lie—anything the opposite of alone and lonely and sexless, and the absence of someone to care about or talk to.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan

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“I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.”
― Melissa Jennings, Afterlife

tags: afterlife, darkness, endurance, growth, mental-health, strength

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“Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: endurance, optimism, perspective, trials-and-tribulations

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“if there is a point to being in the canyon, it is not to rush but to linger, suspended in a blue-and-amber haze of in-between-ness, for as long as one possibly can. To float, to drift, savoring the pulse of the river on its odyssey through the canyon, and above all, to postpone the unwelcome and distinctly unpleasant moment when one is forced to reemerge and reenter the world beyond the rim-that is the paramount goal.”
― Kevin Fedarko, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

tags: adventure, grand-canyon, life

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